"Forgive me, Father, for I am about to sin. And this time, I want you to watch." Some sins don't feel like sins at all. Ivy came back to Valcross to rebuild her life, divorced, unrepentant, and done pretending to be anything other than exactly what she is. The quiet gothic town holds nothing she wants. Until she walks into Saint Jude's and finds Father Johan. Tall. Dark. Untouchable. A man who belongs entirely to God. She knows what she's doing is wrong. She just doesn't care. He knows what she makes him feel is forbidden. He just can't make it stop. Between confessions and candlelight, between prayers and the spaces in between them, something is burning that neither of them knows how to extinguish. He chose God. She chose him. And in the war between faith and desire, someone is going to break. "The most dangerous prayers are the ones you don't say out loud."