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SummaryRecently widowed and still grieving, Cristiana Helyngton
finds her life wrenched apart by her late husband's greedy
and ambitious relatives, who are determined to have control
of her lands and her daughters. Kidnapped, defamed, and
imprisoned in a nunnery, she must find a way to save herself
before she can save her children.
For Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, Cristiana is
at first simply a duty among others, but questions rise and
troubles deepen—and then turn deadly. Cristiana, to
secure her freedom and save her daughters, must use a secret
entrusted to her by her husband as he was dying-but it is a
secret that could bring down those lords nearest the king
and destroy, rather than save, those most dear to her.
Frevisse, drawn into trouble far deeper than she initially
imagined, must decide where her deepest loyalties lie: to
the truth-or to England's peace. And whatever she chooses,
in the end her help may be of little use against the
ruthless men threatened by the secret on which all of
Cristiana's hopes depend.
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