Matrix

Seventeen-year-old Marie leaves the lovely France she loves and finds herself in a foreign, cold England. By order of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she becomes prioress of an almost penniless monastery. Will she be able to revive the abbey and make it a prosperous place of worship? What will help her—faith and strength of spirit? Hard work and persistence?

Marie’s life turns out to be full of unexpected twists and difficult trials.