Evil has taken control of the monastery. In search of a solution, Hildegard is drawn into a profound murder mystery driven by her worst nightmares.

The Evil Abess
A Cloister Mystery

The bells toll. The blood dries. The prayers go on.

In the year of our Lord 1123, something unpleasant is growing behind the abbey walls. It smells like murder, sounds like chanting, and behaves very much like a cover-up.

Sister Hildegard has never been particularly obedient. She sees too much. She hears what isn't said. And she asks questions no nun should.

Now someone is punishing sins that haven't been confessed—and the Rule of Saint Benedict offers no guidance for corpses in the cloister.

The abbess says it's the Devil.
Hildegard suspects something worse.
Something local.

A tale of sacred rituals, petty power struggles, and suspicious silence, The Evil Abess reveals what happens when the truly faithful stop forgiving—and start investigating.