He’s already buried Jai’s sister alive, and another honor killing looms.
Violence threatens, though, when novice Jai’s father invades no-men-allowed Menos. The Abbey’s unnamed neopagan religion serves the Goddess in her three aspects-Maiden, Mother, Crone-and although Maresi narrates in first-person, readers will understand long before she does that the Crone’s calls to her don’t foretell her death. Thirteen-year-old Maresi arrived four years ago, escaping the “hunger winters” that killed her younger sister.
Girls come fleeing poverty and persecution they receive shelter and sustenance, plus knowledge and wisdom they can sometimes take back to their homelands. The island of Menos’ only inhabitants are the Mother, learned sisters, and novices of Red Abbey.
An idyllic abbey of women is attacked by men.
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