This new novel weaves an extraordinary story about mermaids and saints, about spiritual passions and bodily pleasures. It reveals a little-explored area of the female soul, telling of inner awakening and reconciliation with oneself. In the Benedictine monastery on White Heron Island there is a beautiful and mysterious chair, the armrests of which are made in the form of mermaids with wings. As legend has it, the chair has miraculous powers. But will it help the heroine make the main life choice? Here, among the enchanting beauty of nature and majestic white herons, Jesse is torn between his unexpected love for a novice of the monastery and love for her husband, between passion and the irresistible force of attraction of home and family...