num_pages: 288
description: On Elise Friedman's eighth birthday she lost her mother and any connection to her mysterious past. Raised by her loving stepfather Elise has spent years trying to learn the truth about her mother Catrina and her birth family in Germany but still knows very little. Now a young woman in college Elise is traveling to her homeland of Germany to uncover her family's past but what she finds is much more harrowing than she ever suspected.
language: English
title: The Black Cloister
publisher: Kregel Publications