When Olympia Brown is invited to attend a religious conference in England, she soon discovers there is more than faith on the agenda. Someone on staff has a well-calculated plan to destroy The Moorlands, including the great stone house itself. Olympia discovers embezzlement, tainted food and a prescient housecat named Thomas, all of which eventually fit into a pattern—but not before she falls victim to a killer's twisted plot. With Father Jim in the States, Frederick must assist his lady wife in this page-turning tale of hatred and revenge.