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Professor and college chaplain Olympia Brown learns that one of her students is being recruited by a shadowy religious cult. She and colleague Father Jim Sawicki join forces to infiltrate the group and rescue the girl before she becomes another victim of their deadly mission. Assisted by Olympia's resident house-ghost, the spectral Miss Winslow, the two unorthodox clerics encounter a menacing tangle of religious hypocrisy woven against the dark side of human nature as they race against the clock to expose the cult's bloody underbelly.

Meet Viridienne Greene. A lanky six-foot-tall fiber artist who didn't know she had a nose for solving mysteries until she found herself dead-center in the middle of one. She quickly becomes both the hunter and the hunted when she decides to seek justice, tell the truth, and expose the million-dollar deception that resulted in the murder of her best friend. With little more to her name than a converted summer cottage in need of work, a spider plant, a rescued one-eyed ginger tomcat, and a lot of determination, Viridienne heads into the fray. Outcome...uncertain.

An abused widow, a dead doctor and a suspicious stranger. Not exactly the stuff of a merry little Christmas; but a parish minister can't really escape the holidays, or can she? Olympia Brown is the interim minister in the exclusive town of Loring by the Sea where a prominent doctor is about to be murdered. Shortly before Christmas, two very different people come to the church seeking refuge. One is the about-to-be widow and her twin daughters. The other, an undocumented man, living in the shadows of polite society. Both need help and sanctuary. Both will become suspects in the murder. Olympia battles history, tradition and the rule of law as she tries to season justice with mercy, seek truth and convince the church elders open their hearts and their doors as easily as they do their wallets.

Plymouth, Massachusetts, America's home town, is shaken to its colonial core when Mayflower descendent and well-heeled member of the community, Thomas Bradford, is found dead in the wrong bed. As in any other town, there are secrets better left buried. But it isn't long until the Rev. Olympia Brown finds herself dead-center in an unholy firestorm, trying to keep her balance on the horns of a curious ethical dilemma.

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.

Rev. Olympia Brown is serving as a chaplain in a Boston hospital when she finds a colleague in a compromising situation involving a patient. Things rapidly move from uncomfortable to unsafe, and Olympia ends up running for her life. Even Father Jim, her partner in sleuthing, and Frederick, Olympia's lovable Englishman, can't protect her from a murderous psychopath with an unholy mission.

It's summer on the picture book island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Olympia Brown is the summer minister, and she suspects that an elderly parishioner is the target of a nasty confidence operation. Much to the consternation of her colleague, Father Jim, and Frederick, her English gentleman, Olympia puts her own life in danger when she intervenes. Sparks fly, tempers flare, and Olympia ends up on the wrong side of a loaded gun.

When the minister and a young mother, both members of the same church, disappear without warning, the Reverend Doctor Olympia Brown is called in to help. She soon suspects a connection between the missing women and charismatic Pastor Markham from the church across the street. With investigative assistance from her best friend, Father Jim, and support from her beloved Frederick, Olympia discovers Markham’s long and well-concealed history of sexual misconduct.

When a vicious alcoholic dies in a suspicious house fire, Rev. Olympia Brown and Father Jim Sawicki stretch the boundaries of their religious vows to prove his death is accidental and not murder. But evidence to the contrary is mounting and the curious clerical twosome have little time to learn the truth and prevent the daughter that the man abused for years from ending her own life.

Olympia Brown is serving a dwindling congregation trying to save their historic stone chapel. Located on a prime piece of oceanfront property, the financial consequences and benefits on whether to stay, or pack up and go, are considerable. To add to this, a couple with a dubious backstory ask her to perform a private wedding in that church. After a strange and uncomfortable conversation, she tells the two they need more time to think about this and sends them on their way, setting off a chain of international events that even she could never have imagined.