K. McCullough's novel “The Thorn Birds” has firmly and forever won the hearts of millions of readers around the world. In Judy Caroline's new novel, we meet our favorite characters again. Ralph de Bricassart, the son of wealthy parents, from a hereditary family of church ministers, is to become a priest. But he is drawn to a completely different path, and he leaves his father’s house, meeting on his way romantic love, which dooms him to terrible trials. His young and beautiful wife, unable to resist the vicious passion that gripped her, regularly visits the brothel under the name of the Mysterious Stranger. Her lover, mad with jealousy, makes an attempt on Ralph's life. The tragic denouement of the novel, the new young priest of Drogheda and the old flabby Mrs. Carston, in whom a real volcano of unquenched passions rages. What indissoluble secret are they connected by? You will learn about this by reading Judy Caroline’s new novel “Ralph de Bricassart.”