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On a warm night in June of 1990, Sister Belinda of St. Nicholas Church off the coast of Brighton in a small village called Saltdean, was woken to a surprise on the doorstep. A child by the name of Sylvia. The Nuns took in the girl, and there she was raised in the Church along with seven other girls and of course the sisters. It's been seventeen years since Sister Belinda found Sylvia upon the kitchens door-step and Sylvia, who doesn't even know her birthday let alone her last name, is getting frustrated by her lack of answers. So Sylvia sets out from the Church in the dead of night to find the answers to her questions. Who is her mother? Why did she leave her at the Church just weeks after her birth? What kind of a person could do that?
As Sylvia tries to find answers to her questions, she discovers things that shouldn't be possible and she meets a string of dangerous and intriguing people along the way. Will Sylvia find the answers to her questions, or will she return to the only home she has ever known to live out her life with the sisters?
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