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Alys joins the nunnery to escape poverty, but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. When she falls in love with Hugo, the feudal lord and another woman's husband, she dips into witchcraft to defeat her rival and to win her lover, only to find that magic makes a poor servant but a dominant master. Since heresy against the new church means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys's danger is mortal. A woman's powers are no longer safe to use.