As the holiday season approaches, Faith Fairchild"s minister husband, Tom, is not in a festive mood. His job has become routine and his parish seem to care more about church gossip than worship or service, leaving him doubting his own effectiveness. So, when the opportunity to teach for a semester at Harvard"s Divinity School comes up, he leaps at the chance. Within months the family has settled happily into a large, old home in historic Cambridge just across the river from Boston. Faith is shocked when she runs into an old boyfriend. Thirteen years before, Richard Morgan had swept her off her feet - and then disappeared. While Richard has secrets of his own, Faith discovers a diary hidden in the attic of her new home. Written by a woman living there in 1946, it reveals unspeakable horrors. Now, Faith is caught up in solving the mysteries...with a murderer lurking a little too close to home.