Office of Innocence

At the height of World War II, Father Frank Darragh, a young priest embarking on his new career in the church, finds himself torn between his conscience and the Catholic Church as he struggles with the temptation of the flesh in the person of seductive parishioner Kate Heggarty, a situation that is complicated by her murder and by accusations that he caused her death. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.