For seventy years, my grandmother’s journal remained locked in a dusty trunk. Now, its pages threaten to destroy my own safe, predictable future.

Because her story begins with a confession.

“I never meant to fall in love with the priest. But God help me, I did.”

Havenwood, Minnesota, 1953. Eleanor Vance is the town’s perfect war widow, tending her garden and her grief in a gilded cage of propriety. But behind the mask, she’s a woman starving to feel something—anything—to break the suffocating silence of her life.

The storm arrives in the form of Father Michael Connelly. He’s young, handsome, and haunted by a war he refuses to speak of. His sermons of finding grace in broken things are a balm to her soul, a dangerous spark of life in her world of gray.

But Father Michael serves two masters: the God he swore a vow to, and a secret brotherhood that owns his allegiance. He is a man at war with himself, and Eleanor is a truth he cannot afford.

When their worlds collide, the connection is a shock, a jolt of pure, unadulterated heat that is utterly forbidden. In a town that judges every move, their attraction is a lit match to dynamite. But the secrets Michael carries are far more dangerous than town gossip. And when they finally ignite, the explosion will not just shatter their lives—it will echo across generations.

The Priest's Confession is the captivating first book in The Lost Journal Legacy, a series of sweeping, epic historical romance. Perfect for fans of the emotional depth of Mimi Matthews, the historical richness of Kate Quinn, and the epic scope of The Thorn Birds .

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