Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl, with crime, remorse, and suffering as the consequences.
Newly ordained Episcopal minister Clare Fergusson must prove herself as a leader to the members of her church, but her blunt manner has earned her a chilly reception and when a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs, Clare must find a way to sort through the secrets and silence that surround the town.
