1140 Anno Domini: A wealthy countess lies dying at the Convent of the Paraclete, brutally beaten by unknown assailants. Despite entreaties, she is unwilling to name her killer. Beautiful Catherine LeVendeur, the Paraclete's most learned young novice-scholar, vows to find out the identity of the woman's attacker. When her beloved Edgar comes to lead her from the convent to a life of the flesh, Catherine is torn between her quest for justice and the pledge she made him. Catherine doesn't want to break any of the vows she's made-and if she abandons her crusade for the truth, others will die, and the convent she loves may be destroyed...
- ISBN10 0812522958
- ISBN13 9780812522952
- Publish Date 15 September 1995 (first published 1 May 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English