Book description
Evil has crept into the peaceful lives of the Daughters of
Compassion. At first there are only small signs of its presence. The
unnatural docility of Sister Joan's pupils at the little convent
school on the moor. The disappearance of holy water, candles, and
flowers from the convent chapel. The midnight flight of a beautiful au
pair from the home of one of Sister Joan's students. With old Hagar
the gypsy's warnings of malignant and imminent danger confirming her
own deep alarm, Sister Joan begins gently to probe, seeking among her
students and their families for the sources of the darkness that
threatens this remote corner of Cornwall. And when a handsome
adolescent boy inexplicably vanishes, she knows a killer is not far
away. In a race with time and death, she pursues an evil as old as the
human race....
At first there are only small signs of its presence. The unnatural
docility of Sister Joan's pupils at the little convent school on the
moor. The disappearance of holy water, candles, and flowers from the
convent chapel. The midnight flight of a beautiful au pair from the home
of one of Sister Joan's students. With old Hagar the gypsy's warnings of
malignant and imminent danger confirming her own deep alarm, Sister Joan
begins gently to probe, seeking among her students and their families
for the sources of the darkness that threatens this remote corner of
Cornwall. And when a handsome adolescent boy inexplicably vanishes, she
knows a killer is not far away. In a race with time and death, she
pursues an evil as old as the human race..." "Veronica Black
was born in Caernarvon. She obtained an English and Philosophy degree,
as well as a teaching diploma, from the University College of North
Wales. Several of her novels published by Robert Hale feature monastic
sleuth Sister Joan, including Vow of Sanctity, Vow of Silence and Vow of
Obedience."
