The Apostate's Tale — Margaret Frazer

In the latest Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery, the blessed prioress is reunited with a lost soul she never expected to see again...

The nuns of St. Frideswide's receive an unexpected guest -- the long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she had fled from the nunnery with a man. Now her lover is dead and she has returned, bringing her illegitimate son with her. She claims she is penitent, that she wants only to redeem her sin and find a safe haven for her child. Neither she nor the child can be turned away, but their presence begins to stir doubts in the hearts of some of the nuns about their own faithfulness.

But those doubts become the least of the problems Dame Frevisse must confront when far more dangerous troubles follow Sister Cecely and her son into the nunnery -- pursuing her out of the life she claims to have left behind...