In a small-town cemetery, some secrets just won't stay buried.... Mother Lavinia Grey shouldn't talk to strangers. Especially ones she meets in a graveyard. But teenager Shannon Smith and her father, Mark, were the sort of lost sheep a kindhearted Episcopal priest couldn't resist. When Mother Vinnie found them shivering in Fishersville's Catholic cemetery, they were carrying around a box of ashes. And their reason seemed terribly romantic. They hoped to reunite Mark's recently deceased mother with the husband she lost forty years before. Mother Vinnie kindly offered to help find the grave of Mark's father. She never dreamed they might be opening a sepulcher filled with buried secrets and shattered dreams. Or that disturbing the dead, even by asking a few curious questions, might bring to life a killer's fears. And seal Mother Vinnie's own unexpected fate....