![]() But there, suddenly to her horror, ``a hugh black form came swooping down from the transept tower.'' The form is a very dead old sculptor, known and loved by Catherine and his apprentice Edgar, the mysterious Saxon. Handsome, brawling Uncle Roger escorts the ``disgraced'' Catherine from the convent, but she does at last enter the unfinished church of the Abbey of Saint-Denis. It is the famous HÇloãse, abbess of the Convent of the Paraclete, the unrepentant if separated lover of Pierre AbÇlard, who enlists 18-year-old Catherine LeVendeur, daughter of wealthy merchant Hubert, to search out, in the library of the Abbey of Saint-Denis, a psalter prepared at the convent-a psalter that has been disgracefully altered to implicate fiery theologian AbÇlard (and HÇloãse) in heresy. ![]() ![]() Medieval mystery and murder, travel and travail, in 1139 France-as a spunky, sensible, determined novice nun joins forces with a sculptor's apprentice to uncover some evil doings. ![]()
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