A pastor who is compromised.

A girl who falls for him anyway.

And in the middle of it all — a town harboring a gruesome secret.

Mercy Evangeline has spent her whole life learning what faith looks like when it's used as a weapon. So when a job posting at a small Louisiana church comes her way, she takes it — because she still believes in signs.

Judah Beaumont is everything a pastor should be. The town loves him. His sermons make two hundred people forget to breathe. He sits with the grieving, feeds the hungry, and buries the dead with genuine grace.

He is also the most dangerous man in three parishes. And he keeps preaching anyway.

Bless Me Father is a dark romance set in the bayou heat of St. Francisville, Louisiana — where old money runs dirty, God and guilt share the same pew, and the church cellar holds records no congregation was ever meant to see.

Please note: Bless Me Father is a dark romance that does not shy away from its subject matter. The trafficking network at the center of this story is structural and generational — think institutional complicity, not street-level crime. It is not graphically depicted on the page, but it is the moral axis the entire novel turns on. Content warnings include: human trafficking, coercion, and abuse of power, among others.