Of Love and Evil the Birth by Hubert de La Bouillerie is an exciting thriller filled with murder, mystery, devil worship, and the fear of the unknown. It is a love story that spans the age of time. Helene Mirande was a mean, controlling woman who was the head of Global Multi Media Corporations. Her daughter Brooke worked with her in the company but was nothing like her at all. Brooke was good where Helene was evil. Helene was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and took her own life. Before her death, she gave Brooke a ring that had a ruby stone in it with three lizards encircling the stone. She instructed her to wear the ring upon her death and to never take it off. Little did Brooke know what secrets the ring held and the evil that it represented. After her mother’s death, Brooke wore the ring and began to have vivid dreams of a past life. Robert Redman, Brooke’s fiancé was also in the dreams where they were in another place and time. She dismissed the dreams as fantasy and concentrated on producing her news show with her best friend Dani Bates. When a mysterious cult murder occurs, Dani and her investigative team research the story. They uncover a similar murder that was never solved back in 1949. Dani contacts the sheriff on the earlier case and discovers a leather bound book with the Roman numerals IV on it. The book becomes an important part of the investigation. Whenever anyone gets close to solving the mystery of the book they suddenly turn up dead. The book radiates evil. Dani learns from Professor Glanville that the book is the satanic cult of Lucrezia Borgia. The daughter of Pope Alexander IV, Lucrezia made a pact with the devil for her eternal soul when her husband Alphonse was murdered. The pact stated that on the day of the Devil’s choosing she would be reincarnated with her true love Alphonse in another lifetime. As the case unravels Dani begins to believe the story of reincarnation and that something very evil is among them. She fears for her life as well as for Brooke. Will good win out over evil?