"Maren Bradigan is just sixteen years old when she is taken under false pretenses from her comfortable life on her family farm. Concerned at the level of intimacy developing between Maren and the boy who helps her father with his farm work, the village priest takes it upon himself to remove her from school and bring her to one of the Convent of the Sisters of Sacred Mercy, where he delivers her into the care of the nuns"--Page 3 of cover