IIt’s not often Alex St. James has such a tantalizing story fall into her lap, only to have it snatched away again. As news researcher at Midwest Focus Television in Chicago, she’d been set to interview a young Polish immigrant, pregnant by a Catholic priest.

When the young woman is found murdered and Alex tries to investigate, she makes some very powerful people in the Chicago Archdiocese uneasy. Suddenly Alex finds herself in the middle of a plot so sinister and far-reaching that the very next thing she might hear are her own Last Rites.