'To keep quiet about something so important . . . well, it's almost a lie,
wouldn't you say?'When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at
Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one of
the founding fathers of the Priory, revered by all who met him, a man who'd
shaped Anselm's own vocation. The idea that someone could look on his grave and
speak of a lie is inconceivable. But Anselm soon learns that Herbert did indeed
have secrets in his past that he kept hidden all his life. In 1917, during the
terrible slaughter of the Passchendaele campaign,