The Empty Confessional

<p> Everything is going Gabe Russell's way. He's successful in his new job he's a martial arts expert his novel's about to be published and he's got a crush on a woman at work that appears to be reciprocated. </p><p> </p><p>There's just one problem: Gabe is a priest. And he's coming undone.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>The Empty Confessional</em> </strong>is a story of righteous vengeance-and its costs. Torn between his attraction to his former teacher and his calling Gabe finds release for his religious and sexual frustration through violent penance-retribution against the abusers and rapists he discovers through the confessional and the pedophilic priests within his own ranks. </p><p> </p><p>Investigating these assaults is Carla Jessup a cynical detective with her own issues with the law. The result is a complicated relationship in which priest and detective are alternately sources partners and foes. </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><em>The Empty Confessional</em></strong> is a complicated tangle of relationships reckoning and the struggle between what's legal and what's right.</p><p> </p>