Cardinal Virtue

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A beloved schoolteacher her gruesome death and a series of cryptic symbols left behind by the killer are just the beginning...</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Police legacy Lara Nadeau never thought she would find herself anywhere but her beloved Boston. However after the death of her father and one too many missteps on the job she is transferred to Eastfall: a small charming city near Salem. Wracked with grief and haunted by a hostage situation gone horribly wrong Lara spirals into a toxic mire of anxiety depression and substance abuse. She hoped the slow pace of small town policing might be a calm retreat to help set her back on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately not long after her arrival to idyllic Eastfall a brutal ritualistic murder of a beloved educator sends the community reeling. To make matters worse the prime suspect is the police chief's son Police Sergeant Zachariah Braddock. Charming and handsome Zach has a few demons of his own but is he capable of such atrocities? </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lara's only wish is to return to Boston and prove she is not her past mistakes but one death was only the beginning. A sequence of peculiar murders of local women a house with a mind of its own and the return of an old flame threatens to derail her. If Lara can't overcome her own personal demons to help find the killer in time her chances of clearing her name and saving her own life will be dead in the water.</span></p>