On a cold night in Millers Kill, New York, the Reverend Clare Fergusson finds a newborn baby abandoned outside her church. Chief of police Russ Van Alstyne reluctantly accepts her help questioning the church's parishioners. But when a young woman is murdered and the coroner determines she recently gave birth, the cop and the priest join forces to hunt down a killer. This contemporary whodunit introduces an unlikely crime-solving team racing to uncover the deadly secrets hiding in their small town.