A chilling occult horror novel set in 1970s Ireland, about a convent, a child with a dangerous gift, and a darkness generations in the making.
At St. Catharine's Convent in 1970s Ireland, the nuns reward children for being quiet, obedient, and easy to forget. Six-year-old Flora is none of those things. Unwanted and entirely alone, she seems to know a lie before it is spoken and fear before it reaches a face, and the more of herself she reveals, the more the Sisters whisper that she carries the mark of the Devil. When Sister Ophelia, the one nun who dares to love her, begins digging into the truth behind Flora's abandonment, she uncovers a father erased from every record, a bloodline steeped in ritual and sacrilege, and a darkness that has been waiting, with terrible patience, for a child strong enough to carry it. As Flora is passed from convent to foster home to a crumbling manor house where candlelight hides a pentagram beneath the floorboards, the people who love her must decide how far they are willing to go to save her soul.
Flora blends slow-building occult dread with raw emotional stakes, for readers of Ania Ahlborn and Ted Dekker who like their supernatural horror personal, generational, and relentless.