When an explosion rips through a hermit's cottage in the tall mountains of the Tuscan Apennines and a hermit, Brother Pietro, disappears, neighboring monks believe they have witnessed a miracle. Bishop's assistant Father Sergio calls in Sister Angela to verify the ascension of the man of prayer so that he might be considered for canonization. Wary of the role of proving something without scientific evidence, Sister Angela, hesitates. But Father Sergio gives her no choice, and she travels to the mountain to live among the witnesses at Santo Velo Monastery. Excited by the prospect of a miracle,...

When an old nun kidnaps Pia, a six-year-old child, from an orphanage near Siena, Sister Daniela, temporarily teaching at the orphanage, knows the searchers need help. She calls old friend Sister Angela and asks her to investigate. But the probe into a motive becomes complicated by the fact that, years earlier, the toddler had been left on the doorstep of a convent. No one knows where she came from. Surrounded by vineyards in Tuscany's Chianti Classico region, the village of Filari becomes the focus. The search, however, extends into the hill villages of eastern Tuscany where four years...

In the battle between Henry VIII and the Roman Church, young tomboy Julian Upton wants to be a priest when she grows up. But the king and Thomas Cromwell, his chief minister, have other plans. Julian's family is the benefactor of Hawkswold Priory in Yorkshire. Julian befriends young monk Hugh Warrenham who is destined to be ordained. But their relationship gives Cromwell reason to scrutinize Hawkswold as he systematically dismantles Church framework and influence. When her father dies, Julian is sent to an abbey on the moors to become a nun. But the abbey is destroyed before she can take her...