On a stormy January morning in 1962, the libertarian minister of prestigious First Church lies dead in his study, the victim of a brutal knife attack. Five months later, the dead minister's young successor and his Sunday night date discover a hidden room in the church basement used as a pornography studio. How the minister's unsolved murder and the studio relate, the events leading to them and their aftermath shape this sexually charged novel spanning farm country in south New Jersey and city streets in New York's Manhattan.