A Mortal Glamour Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Amidst the many calamities of the late 14th century something sinister is at work among the sisters of la Tres Saunte Annunciacion, a force the women and the men around them seem powerless to fight. It is hard for Pere Guibert to accept what is happening in this once-holy sanctuary. — The ecstatic moans of pleasure and wild thrashings behind clos... more »ed doors. The shame, mingled with rapture, on once beatific faces. One after another, men and women who have sworn to devote their lives to God are being catapulted into a netherworld of debauchery and defilement. And the One who comes to them at night, who has engineered their abrupt fall from grace, is surely too seductive, too cunning, too unspeakably evil to be merely human...
Steeped in the tumultuous atmosphere of ravaged 14th-century Europe, A Mortal Glamour is a sinister tale of obsession and possession. Once you start reading it, you won't stop until you have come face-to-face with the terrible secret of the convent at Avignon.« less