Sins of the Pulpit

She came to Oakhaven to disappear. He saw right through her the moment she sat in his pew.Eden Cross has buried everything — her real name, her past, the photographs that could destroy her. Hiding in a small town where faith is law and gossip travels faster than prayer, she scrubs church floors, buttons her collar to the throat, and performs the role of a woman with nothing to hide.Malachi Vance is the town's most revered man. Choir director. Spiritual pillar. The voice that fills the sanctuary every Sunday with sermons so powerful they feel like salvation.But Malachi doesn't believe in salvation. He believes in control.When he uncovers Eden's secrets — every last one — he offers her a choice: submit to his private discipline, or watch her new life burn to the ground. What begins as blackmail becomes something far more dangerous. Behind locked doors, beneath the cross she wears and the collar he placed around her throat, Eden discovers that the man who holds her sins is the only one who never asked her to be clean.She should run. She knows what he is. She's seen the files, the surveillance, the cold machinery behind the warm sermon.She kneels instead.