A Sarah Gladstone Thriller

A murdered priest leaves behind records of confessional secrets. Secrets someone would prefer he took to the grave. A small town in the English countryside isolated by a severe storm, and a young female officer, alone and out of her depth. A troubled priest is brutally murdered, leaving behind a journal of the residents' confessional secrets; secrets certain people would have preferred he took to the grave.

Following disciplinary action, PC Sarah Gladstone, a happily married mother of two, is reluctantly enrolled onto Mavenwood's fast-track detective training program. As she begins her investigative training, her tutor, DS Dales, a long-serving British detective with the emotional scars to prove it, warns her about the insidious nature of detective work. He's concerned that Sarah's career will leave her as it's left him - bitter and with a string of broken marriages.