At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder.
Mit außergewöhnlicher Fantasie und ohne viel Schnickschnack wurden Märchenwelten erschaffen, die damals Jung und Alt begeisterten und dies auch heute noch tun.