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From the time that Renate was a schoolgirl she knew she wanted to be a nun; being a wife and mother was desirable but out of the question . . . or so it seemed. After taking her vows her curiosity about the life she had given up became her weakness and at times resulted in great difficulty for her. Having chosen to be a missionary she was sent from her native Germany to a mission half a world away in German New Guinea in the turbulent days before the First World War. She thought that all her concerns had now become moot but it was there that she met Lieutenant Johannes Seitz and his beautiful mixed-race wife Rosa. Their open sexuality taunted her and she was drawn into a whirlpool of emotions that left her vulnerable to her secret desires. In her innocence she was unaware of an agenda that transcended her wildest dreams.