Contrition by Robert Hirsch - When Brother Placidus finds young Amanda Lefleur butchered in the attic of the Brothers of Holy Cross, he knew evil had entered their sanctuary…but it was not unfamiliar. Placidus intimately knew of the last person who hung from its rafters. Peter Toche is assigned the murder case. His father had headed-up the last death in the Holy Cross attic and Toche’s last investigation was of another murdered child, who through dreams and visions has led him home just for this reason. There had always been challenges from nature in this coastal community, but no one could imagine the terror which had decided to invade their midst; one that has existed for over a thousand years…or longer – perhaps.