For Logan McMann, family was complicated. He'd left Lakeridge, North Carolina when he finished high school and never considered moving back - until his chosen family asked for his help. A life built on promises and vows, Logan finds himself on shaky ground as he leaves the priesthood and takes up the mantle of behavioral psychologist for the FBIS. It's a fresh start, a new beginning, and a place of his own to heal his shattered heart - until it's interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected roommate. Hudson Hayes had lost his family and nearly his life. Then Red Jefferson brought him to North Carolina and gave him a new place to settle in and heal his body and spirit, and a renewed purpose as part of the team. Neither Logan nor Hudson want the situation they're stuck in, but they are both needed to help take down the organization behind the deaths of Wes Davenport - and Hudson's sister and nephew. Forced to deal with each other, they soon find that chosen family can fill the empty spaces, and help heal broken hearts.
The Bishop is Logan McCann, former espiscopal priest and behavioural psychiatrist. After leaving the church, unhappy with the way his skills were being used, he returns to Lakeside, becoming embroiled in the continuing and expanding investigation into the murder of Wes Davenport. He moves into The Village, with the other returned members of the Chess Club, and while waiying for his new home to be delivered he stays with Hudson Hayes - not himself a Chess Club member but recrited by Redmond Jefferson after his former home was destroyed in a hired hit that also killed his sister and nephew. He is offered some light bodyguard/babysitting work while he continues to recover before resuming duties for FBIS.
The plot to kill Wes is becoming less opaque as a number of leads from the former police department and mayoral office are uncovered...
Interesting social background info is given in the book.
An escalation of the threats and violence hits the Chess Club members and their friends. Wes is still hanging around, wishing he could communicate with his living friends. An assassin is at work, under orders from more than one person.