After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Molly Fowler flees her past life for the only safe place she knows - Saint Gabriel Abbey, home of the Benedictine monks who once sheltered her mother. Reckless, self-destructive, with a knack for causing trouble, Molly is an unlikely monastery guest. She quickly makes an enemy of the ambitious Father John, who makes it a project to save her soul. Befriended by the monks who knew her mother, Molly learns some dark truths about her parents' history...while finding herself drawn into a deep and unsettling intimacy with Brother Magnus, the monastery librarian. But when her past, and her mother's, finally catch up with her, Molly's struggle to discover who she is - and who she might become - are violently threatened. This is a story of redemption, and one lost girl's winding and complex journey out of the darkness and into the light.