The Virgin Sacrifice

About the Book

The Virgin Sacrifice concerns the fate of a young woman who inherits property on an island off the coast of Maine. The source of the inheritance, a reclusive old woman and distant relative, is unknown to her. Because of personal problems at work where she is a fashion design assistant, her depression over the fact that her fiancé is missing in Vietnam, and her desire to become more fully developed as an artist, she leaves New York for Maine. There she finds herself becoming involved with the long-dead owner of the house, the father of the woman who willed it to her, and the only other residents, the director of the scientific laboratory on the north end of the island, and his sister.

About the Author

Cathryn Raka lives on Long Island with her semiretired physicist husband, two dogs, and two horses. In recent years she has spent much of her time caring for and training her horses in dressage and carriage driving. She has been a student, a researcher, a teacher, and from time to time a writer. The Virgin Sacrifice grew out of her interest in storytelling and weaves her educational and scientific background into the plot. Begun in the late seventies, it was rewritten in the mid-nineties. The plot remained the same. The style changed