The Castle of Whispers
This story is about a young woman who chooses solitude over marriage. Esclarmonde is fifteen at the start of this novel and required by birth as the daughter of a lord to marry a knight who her father has chosen. This disturbs Esclarmonde who views the knight, Lothaire, as a reckless ladies man who can not be trusted to marry. On the night of her betrothal to Lothaire, Esclarmonde slices her ear off and condemns herself to a life of sainthood. This actio...
