It was dark in the cloakroom. And Mother Lavinia Grey thought she had stepped on a dead rat. Until she turned on the lights and discovered the doughy hand of the bishop under her sensible shoes.
Certainly, she and the bishop had their differences. He had, indeed, described her embattled St. Bede's Episcopal Church as "functionally dead," and "valuable real estate." Although desperate to resurrect her endangered church, Mother Vinnie must now save herself. She's Detective David Dogg's prime suspect-and secret passion. But even love is on hold as she digs into the bishop's shrouded past to find motive and murderer. No one is above suspicion. Not even the friends she trusts with her life...