Assaulted by the bitter cold of a montreal winter, the American-born dr. Temperance breman, forensic anthropologist for the province of quebec, digs for a corpse where sister elisabeth nicolet, dead over a century and no...Assaulted by the bitter cold of a montreal winter, the American-born dr. Temperance breman, forensic anthropologist for the province of quebec, digs for a corpse where sister elisabeth nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the Cloistered Nun's fate.