Extended Synopsis

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Introduction

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From the Chronicles of Lupa is a two-volume visionary epic about the Sisterhood of Lupa, a secret lineage of women stretching back to the days of Eden.

Their role is simple yet fearsome: to uphold the light and execute judgment upon the wicked, hunting them by the light of the full moon, sometimes singly, sometimes in packs. They battle their adversaries fiercely, for only through their ceaseless struggle is the balance of the world preserved.

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Into this battleground wanders a man called Jesse James — a man of vast goodness, clemency, and capacity for love. His devotion to Ruby Tuesday draws him toward a terrible death, but also into a redemption long promised, though scarcely hoped for in his generation.

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At once apocalyptic and tender, the novel blends scripture, legend, and love story. It answers the deep sighing of the oppressed and fulfills the luminous inheritance of Ruby Tuesday and poor Jesse James. It is a work about how vision, tenderness, and conscience might prevail against their baleful opposites.

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Plot Details

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The novel opens with a short book of Lamentation: a fragment from a psychiatric ward, an MK-Ultra artifact. An LSD-stricken patient glimpses the reality of the women called Lupa. In his testimony they are neither harpies nor succubi, neither vampires nor witches, but shining ones — hunted and slandered daughters of the moon who cannot be subdued. His voice, part prophecy and part delusion, sets the tone for the novel: a clash between blasphemy and vision, cruelty and light.

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Into this fractured world comes Ruby Tuesday, raised by Mother Ruby on the cadences of an endless song of love and sorrow, of battles that by nature can never end. Her childhood is steeped in luminous secrecy, ordinary books seeming thin beside her mother’s song. Yet she is haunted by her mother’s warning that women like them must not expose themselves to the love of men. Ruby grows devoted to the song, yet also waits for her beloved — who will come like a column of smoke, whose mane will be inscribed upon the chambers of her heart.

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In parallel we meet Jesse Quinn, called Jesse James by his middle name. His childhood is scarred by neglect and bitterness, which he inherits as cruelty. For a time he is cruel indeed: hurting animals, mocking the weak, becoming the very child his mother’s scorn demanded. Yet before manhood, a profound change overtakes him. He turns back from iniquity and swears to atone — out of innate goodness, but also drawn by strange songs that seem to reach him from desert places, voices calling him to a destiny he does not yet understand.

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As the story unfolds, Jesse and Ruby’s fates entwine against the backdrop of cosmic powers. Ruby must heal the fractured inheritance of Lupa — culminating in confrontation with Magdalene, greatest of The Twelve. Jesse must face an Abomination known as Chixulub, the Sunken God, the Unredeemer.

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Their bond is tested by betrayal and sorrow until the tale crescendos in visions of apocalypse. Yet despite its grand themes, at heart it remains a simple love story between two luminous souls.

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Themes and Significance

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• The Sisterhood of Lupa​: Ruby’s lineage situates women as bearers of song, secrecy, and endurance. Their song cycles endlessly, resisting closure, preserving desire as sacred rather than profane. They are also terrifying agents of vengeance against the wicked, declaring to oppressors: rightly should you fear. Jesse is motivated toward clemency and mercy, but that is not the justice the Sisters of Lupa wield. They hold up shining mirrors of truth, reflecting all things without the distortions of mercy.

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• Redemption through Conscience​: Jesse’s childhood turn from cruelty to kindness is a rare image of radical repentance. The novel shows such mercy not as weakness but as the seed of strength. Later Jesse confronts young men ignorant even of the basic syntax of conscience, let alone the deeper demands of redemption. The book is a sustained critique of the modern world, where many lack even the vocabulary for examining their conscience.

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• The Word and the Power​: For Jesse to enter his inheritance he must unite the clear light of clemency that has always guided him with the darker firelight burning deep within. Following the light of the Word, he encounters a radiant fire that refuses to reveal its origin — a fire teeming like a dark sea that would terrify him, had he retained any distance from it.

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Style and Form

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The novel is composed of short chapters built from space-separated paragraphs. Each paragraph is dense and lyrical, closer to prose-poems than to conventional narrative. The tone is drawn equally from scripture, visionary testimony, folk legend, and modern myth, collapsing distinctions between hallucination, history, and revelation.

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Context in the Author’s Work

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Lupa is perhaps the work most centrally situated in New Scripture. Where The Majesty of Judas reclaims the most slandered disciple, Lupa expands into apocalyptic myth, weaving legend, secret women, and cosmic terror. Its vision is further deepened in My Name is Sheol.

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FAQs

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1. Who is Ruby Tuesday?

Ruby is the only daughter of her mother, also called Ruby Tuesday. They are part of the Sisterhood of Lupa (She-Wolf), who battle ceaselessly against darkness to uphold the light. Their history reaches back to the earliest days of the world, their Great Heart beating since Eden, awaiting restoration by the One who will be sent to deliver them.

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2. Who is Jesse James?

Jesse James Quinn is a boy who turned from cruelty and was called to greatness by a mysterious love that sings just beyond his hearing. He must ultimately choose between continuing his life or giving it up to save Ruby — and the world.

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3. Is Lupa historical or fantastical?

It is mythic. Drawing from real figures and histories, it transfigures them into transcendent myth, where visions, prophecies, and apocalyptic battles are the true terrain. It eschews world-building, for the world is already rich enough — whether in scripture and myth, or in the lived reality where a life devoted to love becomes its own tragic, exalted quest.

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Closing Note

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From the Chronicles of Lupa is not merely an invention or a fanciful tale of She-Wolves and their redeemer Jesse James. It is a vision of how tenderness might endure amid wrath, how conscience might undo bitterness, and how luminous women and redeemed men can unmake an abomination without raising a sweat. It is a story of redemption: not only of individuals, but of the twisted narratives of scripture itself. It makes New Scripture that is genuinely redemptive and deeply humane.