Tongues of Angels, Julia Park Tracey
Tongues of Angels, Julia Park Tracey
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Tongues of Angels
A Novel

Author: Julia Park Tracey

Narrator: Faith Clark

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/08/2025

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Erotica


Synopsis

A lifelong vow. A Catholic priest with questions. A penitent woman with a secret past. A jealous friend. The fourth in this lover's knot? God.

Robert Souza, a blue-collar Portuguese boy raised by a poor widowed mother, gave up on marriage when he sat at his kitchen table and signed the application papers for the seminary. For a brief time, before his ordination, he strayed and considered marrying Shannon. But he strongly desired the union with God.

Now, six years later, a priest at St. Justin Martyr, Rob once again faces the forbidden desire of his own heart when Jessica, a victim of a brutal assault, comes for counseling. Along with Rob's best friend, Lawrence—a priest with an artistic temperament and trials of his own—Rob and Jessica are forced to make choices they don't intend against the backdrop of a Greek chorus of gossiping priests and church politics riddled with suspicion and engaged in the battle for souls.

About Julia Park Tracey

Author Julia Park Tracey's ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the deep south and the Pacific Coast. Park Tracey has three counties in California who claim her for their own: Sonoma County where she was raised; Alameda County where she was a columnist, journalist, and Poet Laureate; and Nevada County where she currently resides. She is the author or editor of six books, including two collected diaries of her aunt, a teen flapper in the Roaring Twenties. She has written for Redbook, HuffPost, The Sun, Salon, and Babble. She is also a partner and the executive editor at Sibylline Books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Billie on May 28, 2013

Tongues of Angels takes us behind the velvet ropes of the Catholic church, where secrecy and ceremony mask the daily struggle of priests grappling with their all-too-human emotions. Piety and propriety are difficult enough to maintain, but celibacy is the vow they make every minute of every day, wit......more

Goodreads review by Christina on May 24, 2013

Wow, peeling away the curtains of the Catholic Church is a bit like opening Pandora's box. This story gives the reader a candid view of the men behind the collars. Their parishioners exalt and Angel-ize them, but they're really only humans, right? Yeah, humans battling desires against an iron-clad p......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on May 24, 2013

Tongues of Angels manages to be sexy, smart and spiritual all at once. And without even trying, timely for the changes happening in the Catholic Church. As a person who grew up without religion but has long held a fascination it's both a probing look at how religion does and doesn't work, and also j......more

Goodreads review by Frankie on May 30, 2013

I had a spare hour before bed this week, so I thought I would settle in with a new book and then catch an early night. I bought Tongues of Angels by Julia Park Tracey, and five hours later I was cursing her. I was immediately drawn into the plot—the conflicted priest, Father Rob Souza, has a serious......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on June 08, 2013

I sat down to read Tongues of Angels and didn't want to put it down. Julia Park Tracey parted the velvet curtain and ushered us inside the Church and showed that Priests are mortals just like the rest of us. Jessica and Father Rob had choices to make that would forever alter the lives they thought t......more