Due to her experiance with art crimes and her past with the religious order, Emma Sharpe is summoned to a convent on the Maine coast, to investigate a mysterious painting depicting scenes of Irish lore and Viking legends. When the nun who contacted her is murdered, it seems legend behind the painting is becoming a deadly reality. Colin Donovan, one of the FBI's most valuable assets, is back home in Maine when his friend Father Bracken presents him with an intrigue of murder, international art heists and a convent's long-held secrets. As the danger spirals ever closer, Colin is certain of only one thing-the very intriguing Emma Sharp is at the center of it all.