The Healer's Daughter

The Healer’s Daughter embraces universal themes of love, lust and suppression, along with other worldly elements, and set against the backdrop of a country being torn apart. Conflict rages in 16th century England with the dissolution of the monasteries. On the news of the closure of her convent, a young nun must journey to a distant abbey with a rare and valuable manuscript that hides a secret that will change her life. A ruthless notary is in relentless pursuit of the manuscript and will stop at nothing, even murder, to possess the object of his desire.

‘Our convent is to close!’ These words strike fear into Hannah, an eighteen-year-old nun and herbalist. She must journey to a distant abbey and take with her for safekeeping a rare and valuable manuscript. It is hiding a secret that will change her life. On the road she is attacked and David Westworth, the son of a wealthy landowner, comes to her rescue. She sees a man she can trust and a friendship is forged, but he is not all he seems. He, too, is hiding a secret.

The king’s cruel policies bite down hard, Hannah’s cloistered world crumbles and the manuscript is again assigned to her care. She sets out to unravel the mystery of her lineage and of her close connection to the earth. A ruthless notary pursues her relentlessly, desiring the manuscript at all costs.