


The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader.

To order an inscribed copy of the book, please include inscription information in the comment line.It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. Readers have waited years for Through The Evil Days and Julia Spencer-Fleming delivers with the exquisite skill and craftsmanship that have made her such a success. In the course of this one tumultuous week the lives of the Millers-Kill residents readers have come to love and cherish change forever. Her on-again-off-again lover, Kevin Flynn, has seven days to weigh an offer from the Syracuse Police Department that might take him half a state away.Īs the days and hours tick by, Russ and Clare fight personal and professional battles they've never encountered. Officer Hadley Knox is having a miserable January as well. She has one week to find out if she will be scolded, censured, or suspended from her duties. Alban's Church has called for the bishop to investigate Clare's "unpriestly" pregnancy. And his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week in an unelectrified ice-fishing cabin. Which is the very last thing Russ needs.Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood.

On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire, that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Published: Minotaur Books - November 5th, 2013
