This is the first novel in series about the Rev.Merrily Watkins, a widowed, single parent, female priest in the Anglican Church. If that sounds a little odd as the basis of a really good book, just wait.

The only reason she was not divorced from her unfaithful, unscrupulous husband - was he died in a car wreck with his girlfriend. Merrily (a sometimes frazzled mother of teen daughter Jane) takes up a new living in the parish of Ledwardine on the border of England and Wales. (Manipulated into taking on the position of diocese "deliverance" minister. For those of use not up to speed in the modern,...