In A Widow of the Roman Church, award-winning playwright, novelist, and journalist Paula Dail offers a spellbinding sequel to Uneasy States of Grace. The story chronicles feminist university professor Gillian Spencer's life following the accidental death of her beloved Monsignor Sam Kennedy, a Roman Catholic priest with whom she has had a nearly fourteen-year relationship. As a true feminist, Gillian challenges conventional notions of grief and embraces the grieving process on her own terms by examining the many twisted tendrils of grief, and allowing her heartstrings to reweave. Gillian's search for answers leads her into an emotional labyrinth where she discovers the meaning of a father's devotion, the power of women's friendships, and the evidence that love outlasts death. When Gillian emerges from her grief, she is middle-aged and as content as she feels she will ever be. Then Sam communicates with her the last time and her life takes yet another unexpected, and surprising, turn."