Publisher's Synopsis
St Pauls, Bristol, 1980. Joseph Tremaine Ellington has long abandoned his former career as an enquiry agent for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Ellington's dark and violent past has flickered out. His fiancee, Ruth Castle, is dead - leaving him heartbroken and alone, bringing up his fifteen-year-old niece Chloe. Ellington's days are long and lonely, his nights tormented by old ghosts. When the wife of a respected Baptist minister vanishes into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind both her own family and a critically fragile premature infant daughter, Ellington is asked if he can help find the woman. He was determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the Bristol night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend keeps bringing him back like a moth to a flame...
