Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under her dress he will find the notebooks that contain Rose’s harrowing story, At fourteen years old, Rose is sold to a rich man by her father, a farmer unable to support her and her three younger sisters, Traded for a handful of coins, she becomes the property of the master and is taken away without warning to her new home, This isolated manor that seems like a castle to Rose, with the master’s formidable mother and his absent wife, immediately provokes a sense of unease, Rose soon becomes caught in their perverse web, unsure of how to escape and whom she can trust,