Plagued by the color blue, Ella is haunted by parallels with the past, and by her recurring dream. Tormentor becomes husband, and a shocking fate awaits her. Falling pregnant, she is forced to marry into the ruling family: the Tourniers. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village-suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and learns French. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them.
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