• Amidst the many calamities of the late 14th century something sinister is atwork among the sisters of la Tres Saunte Annunciacion, a force the women and themen around them seem powerless to fight. What is overwhelming both the holy andthe damned? The true horrors of a dark age combine with ingenious imaginationfor a tumultuous tale of tragic love and disastrous desire.

The true horrors of a dark age combine with ingenious imagination for a tumultuous tale of tragic love and disastrous desire. RTerrifying. (Yarbro's) picture of women going slowly mad in a convent during one of history's darkest periods is both gruesome and irresistible.S--Stephen King