Set in seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope dancer, who is forced by circumstance to abandon the travelling life and seek refuge among the sisters of the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer.

Reinvented as Soeur Auguste, Juliette is able to make a new life for herself and her young daughter, Fleur, under the benevolent tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing; the murder of the king becomes a catalyst for massive social and political upheaval in France, which soon reached even this remote island community.

Following the death of the old Abbess, a new appointment is made and Juliette sees her comfortable life begin to unravel. For the new Abbess is Isabelle, the eleven year old child of a corrupt and noble family fanatically bent on reform. Worse still, Isabelle has unwittingly brought with her a ghost from the past; guy LeMerle, a man Juliette has every reason to fear and hate, who has a troubling agenda of his own.

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