When Broke Hardwick's handsome and popular young clergyman husband is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect in the eyes of both the police and the residents of the small country town where she lives. But when two balaclava-clad strangers break into her home, violently demanding something her husband had - and about which she knows nothing - she realizes there is danger from more than one quarter, and a complex web of mystery surrounds her husband's life and death.
