A quiet corner of Victorian Cornwall is stirred up: in one of the walls of a former monastery, remnants of a walled-in nun are found. A legend comes to mind about six maidens turned to stone for betraying their vows. As for the seventh maiden, who suffered the strictest punishment, it seems as though the novel’s main heroine is a repetition of her fate. Obsessed with an ambitious dream, the sensible, calculating beauty Kerensa Karens brings vengeance and madness of the full moon into an old estate…
Another title: “The Legend of the Seventh Maiden”