Devil's Churchyard

From the moment he laid eyes on her, the Reverend Brink had plans for Kate Evans. She was perfect. A beautiful goddess... The alter stood on a knoll overlooking the river . . . a flat summit, bare of trees, the grass close-cropped. There was nothing to obscure the ring of boulders that crowned it and their plan remained undisturbed. They formed a perfect circle around the altar- a pale, sinister thing, scoured white by wind and rain. It was here Kate Evans first encountered Jim Tranmire and the two of them puzzled over the ancient, vellum-covered book, written in Latin except for the list at the end- a list of names that included Kate Evans. And it was here that Kate would die because it seemed that neither her own common sense nor the man that loved her could keep her from the altar at . . . The Devil's Churchyard.