Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France. A new appointment is made and Juliettes new life begins to unravel. For the new Abbess is Isabelle the eleven-year-old child of a corrupt and noble family. Worse Isabelle has brought with her a ghost from Juliettes past masquerading as a cleric a man she has every reason to feara