Beatrice Barbary has been raised to believe that while education will set her mind free, ignorance will keep her safe. But when her father, a prominent member of Bernese society, is brutally murdered in their home, she struggles to accept things the way they are.
 
Giving in to the full weight of her long-encumbered curious mind, Beatrice stumbles chaotically through a dark past and discovers The Order of St. Eve and the violent secrets they have been hiding for twenty years. Will she be able to right the wrongs of her father, or will the Order silence her first?
 
A retelling of Charles Perrault's gothic fairy-tale Bluebeard set in Bern in the 1600s at the breaking point of the Peasant revolt, Beatrice's story tows the dangerously thin line between retribution and revenge and the choice we must make when confronted by evil.