House of Gentle Men The

In a year of war sixteen-year-old Charlotte sets off on a mission of love in the backwoods of Louisiana only to be violated by three soldiers in a lonely section of the forest. Charlotte''s young life is destroyed but another life is growing inside her. Years later in peacetime Charlotte comes to House of Gentle Men a mysterious sanctuary where sad damaged women are administered to by haunted men wishing to atone for their past crimes. Here Charolotte falls in love with one of the Gentle Men a tormented young soldier with a terrible secret of his own.An artistic triumph of the highest order this debut is a transcendent tale of salvation that celebrates the strength of the heart.