His vow was to God. Her heart was his only confession.

Small-town Minnesota, 1953. Eleanor Vance is a war widow living in a prison of grief, while Father Michael Connelly is the handsome new priest, a man haunted by a dark past and bound to a secret society. When their worlds collide, the connection is immediate, electric, and utterly, damnably forbidden.

Seventy years later, a lost journal is discovered in a dusty attic trunk, its first line a confession that will change everything: I never meant to fall in love with the priest.

Now, one woman must unravel the story of this impossible love and the dangerous secrets it has protected for decades—a truth that could either set her free or destroy the life she thought she knew.