Holy Smoke is a comic novel that takes place in a suburban Catholic high school in Downriver Michigan. The protagonist, Paul Moret, is a middle-age man who is looking for a fresh start in life after experiencing a series of setbacks, beginning with the loss of his wife to cancer. The principal at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow High School, Sister Ophelia, is a tyrannical nun intent on ridding the school of each and every student who fails to live up to her high standard of personal conduct. She hired Paul Moret believing that he would be on her side in what she refers to as the ongoing war...