The novel tells a story of two individuals from completely different backgrounds, a black widow and a white priest, together they are confronted by their indelible emotions in a religious setting and the conventions of the society stand between everything they do to appease their desires. A libertine style novel, set in 1957 in SophiaTown, Stella is a widowed single mother of two boys and the new caretaker of St Gideon Catholic church. The departure of the presiding priest leads to uncertainty in the parish, the mood becomes tense and what follows is a limbo of faith until a young American...