The Unworthy

The UnworthyThe long awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can finddiscarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of

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and a country as it is transformed in ways that

and who stole it from whom

Ware owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commanded

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a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer

They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home

her sister Ami is an eternal champion

about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness

thirty-something Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life