β Scribed by Kristin Gleeson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Ireland 590 A.D.
A woman is found by a track, nearly dead from appalling wounds and remembers nothing. Her terror and her injuries are so great that she is given sanctuary in Mother Gobnait's unusual community of nuns, while all around her a war is being waged in which she is a pawn. The women name her Aine.
Disturbing fragments of Γine's memory begin to surface, and in desperation she asks to remain in the safety of the community, but is it really safe for her anywhere?
It is only after events take another terrible turn that Γine is forced to discover who she really is and make life-changing choices - but will they prove to be her undoing?
A literary novel inspired by real women - complex female characters who strain against the cruel chains and crippling prejudices of a society where no woman has power. Except, perhaps, oneβ¦
Kristin Gleeson has performed with admirable deftness the difficult trick of...
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