A quiet corner of Victorian Cornwall is disturbed - the remains of a walled-up nun are discovered in one of the walls of a former monastery. I remember the legend of six maidens who were turned into stones for betraying their vows. As for the seventh maiden, who suffered the most severe punishment, her fate seems to be repeated by the main character of the novel. Obsessed with an ambitious dream, the intelligent, calculating beauty Kerenza Karli brings vindictiveness and the madness of the full moon to the ancient mansion...