Anne Fitzgerald is called to investigate one of the greatest mysteries of the last 2000 years, when a pair of pregnant teenage girls claim immaculate conception. Her employer, the Archdiocese of Boston, wants to know whether the girls are lying, or if the startling prophecies of Our Lady of Fatima are at last coming pass. Fatima's message says that two infants will simultaneously be born to virgin mothers, with one bieng the new Messiah, and the other...

"An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland, Catherine trusts herself to a group of twenty...

"The atmospheric novel set during the Tudor era of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue, and danger in a period of great upheaval In 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women-- even the privileged few who can read and write-- have little independence. In The Butcher's Daughter, it is this milieu that mandates Agnes Peppin, daughter of a simple country...