Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson have long fought their passion in deference to his marriage, but it's difficult keeping secrets in the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill. When his wife is found brutally murdered in their home, the state police think it's an open-and-shut-case of a disaffected husband, silencing first his wife, then the investigation he controls. But nothing is as it seems in Millers Kill, where betrayal twists old friendships and evil waits inside white-clapboard farmhouses. Russ and Clare struggle against the reach of the law, the authority of the church, and their own guilty hearts