Sister Shinara of the Yulinites is on a ship that is attacked by Aurzia- the Red Mistress. When the pirate's men are going to kill Shinara and the five novices in her care the sister makes a deal with the pirate queen to lead her to a 'great treasure' in a distance monastery. Meanwhile near that monastery young monk Zak has been slipping out of the monastery to have an affair with a noblewoman using a magic talisman but he haunted by the memory of Shinara. The Red Mistress leads her brigands on a cross-country trek to loot the monastery with Shinara in tow and a strange bond develops between them. When they reach the monastery in a storm of fire and blood a reckoning is due. The three; the monk, the pirate and the nun are on a collision course where love, hate and fear are a heady and overwhelming mix!