The Handmaiden's Diary

<p>What does it take to live a pious life? For the sober devout naive young Edith it meant foregoing the love of her life ... and she entered into an unhappy and disastrous marriage to a dashing narcissistic reprobate whom her pastor considered a worthily righteous mate. Her only compensation for her miserable situation were her two children who worshiped her.</p><p><br></p><p>For her timid young daughter Amber it meant foregoing a comforting married life for a celibate pastoral life in the community of her mother's reportedly enlightened and judicious childhood pastor. But Amber kept a diary and when her <em>Pandora's</em> diary was abruptly opened one day no one but she and Edith found freedom from the evils hidden beneath the pastoral exhibition of piety.</p>