"The Altar Boy"

Jaden Hart has always been the outcast. She grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and has spent her life being judged for her mother’s past. Staying invisible has always been her safest choice until one Sunday, she catches the eye of Dawson Carducci.

Vienna thrives on devotion and spotless reputations. The church bells, the polished smiles, the strict routines of faith. Every week, the town puts its holiness on display, and every night it hides the sins no one dares to speak aloud. That fragile order collapses when women connected to a nearby gentlemen’s club begin turning up murdered. Fear spreads through the community, and when suspicion falls on the town’s most prominent altar boy, the panic is almost impossible to contain.

In a town that worships perfection like religion, the most dangerous thing isn’t the devil, it’s the devoted.