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Our Great Abbess
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A secluded convent on the precipice of terror!
For over a century the St. Agnes monastery existed peacefully in its hidden mountain valley ... But now, as Mother Tabitha joins with her Governing Mothers to instruct their sister novitiates on how to defeat the evils of the world -- the world’s evils will come to destroy them all.
In this macabre tale, pulsing with colorful characters, the nightmare begins with a childish dream of Demons. But it will be a test of strength, will, loyalty, and wit to survive the very real perils set against them: villainous nobles, vengeful spirits, intriguing priests, treacherous rogues, sadistic rape-fiends, love smitten spies ... and still ever more violent menace and subtle dangers that would hound these women to extinction -- in what quickly descends into the most harrowing moment of the order’s history ...
Here is the glorious and uplifting account of her dark, cruel, and bloody origin.
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