An ex-con struggling to hold his family together, a sheriff with an ax to grind, and the damaged young woman caught between them.
Tragedy has brought Lily Martin home to Angelique, Louisiana. Her best friend, a parish priest, has been murdered, and Lily needs to know why. Questions aren't always welcome in Acadia Parish, however--not by her ex-lover, Gitan Boudreaux, not by ex-husband Sheriff Hugh Lothiar, and not by the man who murdered Father Dugas... and before long, Lily finds herself in grave danger.