Can a broken heart ever truly heal? Well, neither can a broken hip. But her personal pain is the least of her problems when when Sligo detective Emma Woods gets assigned the homicide case of a prominent reverend in the Church of Ireland. Emma is soon caught in a web of intrigue, greed and shame. To untangle it, she has to dig deep into the victim's family history. In Ireland, where the past is never really the past, the consequences of previous choices come back to haunt everybody who dares to take a closer look. Suddenly, Emma has to make decisions herself that go to the core of the questions who she really is and how far she is willing to go to serve justice.