In book one of the Callahan series, John Callahan is a good man with a sinister past — and his past will not let him live in peace. Against the odds, he matures from a teenage Belfast street thug and an IRA killer to a happily married man and expectant father.

Then fate snatches away his wife, his unborn child—and his world—in the flash of a tragic accident for which he feels responsible. Years later, just as he begins to find peace and serenity again as a monk in a rural Irish monastery, a vindictive superior banishes the handsome young priest to a derelict parish in New York City.

Ripped away from his quiet, secluded life, Father Callahan is plunged back into a dangerous cacophony of filth, corruption, and crime. Will he remain a celibate priest, or will he abandon the life of faith for more sensual pleasures?

Will he stay a good man or return to the dark criminal life he once knew so well?

In this exciting, insightful novel, Elizabeth Upton puts readers inside the mind of a passionate, wounded, and angry young priest as he struggles to live in a state of grace among new friends and enemies in a foreign land.