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

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

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is best known as the author of the Saint Germain novels, including “Dark of the Sun,” “A Feast in Exile,” “Night Blooming,” “Midnight Harvest,” and the classic “Hotel Transylvania,” A Grand Master at the World Horror Convention and an International Horror Guild Living Legend, Yarbro lives in Berkeley, California.