On the eve of Germany's invasion of France, twelve-year-old Jacqueline Rosen is smuggled to a remote mountaintop convent by her Jewish adoptive parents. The family arrives at the cloister gates just hours ahead of the Wehrmacht's advancing Panzer divisions, and Jacqueline's tearful and trusting parents leave her in the care of a kindly Mother Superior. This good woman, who promises Jacqueline sanctuary, does not survive the day.

With the succession of a new Mother Superior, the same grey fieldstone walls that insulate Jacqueline from Nazi persecution become a prison that, for a quarter of a century, seals her fate as another kind of victim. Incredible horrors define Jacqueline's existence under the control of those who pose, at least to the outside world, as men and women of God.

The story of Jacqueline's life and the truth about her tormentors unfolds twist by unnerving twist in Eric L. Marsh's Mother Superior's Secret. ← Back