The Most Intimate Place

'I looked over at her lying on the bed. At the elegant way her spine curved from the dress at her waist down to the divide of her beautiful arse.

I decided to kiss her again. You won't bite me now, Helen, I thought. I'm going to kiss you, and you won't bite me again'.

Patrick Price-Johnson is on remand for the murder and intimate assault of a woman priest. "The Most Intimate Place" is the story of how he reached that desperate point.

It begins as a mundane article for a local rag but when girlfriend Julia gets involved the stakes are raised.

Patrick finds himself manipulated into a piece of literary detective work revolving around the theological doctrine of midrash that will uncover a Church of England sex scandal. Or so he thinks. It's a journey that will drag him through fear, hypocrisy and despair to the darker side of love and faith and a sad question: is unrequited love the only love that lasts?