In April 1915 Joseph Reavley is serving as chaplain on the Front Line at Ypres The war that should have been 'over by Christmas' has already decimated the British Expeditionary Force To Joseph's sector comes an ambitious young war correspondent determined to expose the horrors of trench life But before he can dispatch his piece, he is found dead in no-man's-land Still seeking the man behind his parents' murder, and to protect his sister Judith from the pain of an impossible romance, Joseph must find the truth