Mr. Wroe's Virgins

In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire, England, where he and his followers awaited the end of the world. And when God told Wroe to find "comfort and succour" with seven virgins, his followers supplied him their daughters. This is the story of those seven young women-faithful, cynical, canny, and desperate-and their charismatic leader, as they move headlong toward the historic trial that brings their household to its dramatic end.