In 1888, the remote Convent of the Angels, located in the southern portion of the Brazilian province of Bahia, was rocked by scandal and revolt. The tale of the convent's redemption by a band of courageous novices is recounted in The Imitation of Christ, in which brave Sister Innocencia de Oliveira suffers cruelty and torture at the hands of her superiors before engineering their downfall with the help of the powerful bishop of Salvador.

The Convent of the Angels recounts the story of the convent's new and unexpected life under Sister Innocenia as all-powerful Mother Superior. New loves--and new tortures--await the brave band of novices.

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Raven-haired Innocenia de Oliveira is the most beautiful young woman in Bahia plantation society. But life in Brazil's cocoa and sugar capital is cruel in 1888.

The pale, shapely beauty becomes Sister Innocencia, a novice in the remote Convent of the Angels, after an ‘unsuitable’ affair.

Bizarre cruelties await her at the benighted Convent. Sister Innocencia and a few brave cohorts must endure the whip, the rack and the cross as they battle for the freedom of their beloved colleagues, the true ‘angels’ of the Convent. Along the way, they acquire some unlikely allies, including a virile bishop and a skilled, but anguished, executioner. Sister Innocencia's heart will be touched by love but her naked skin will be marked by the whip before her battle is won. Then she will thank her saviors, and her God, in a ritual of pleasure and punishment only a hot-blooded sadist could devise.

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