Sister Anne She started out as a fresh-faced, idealistic, mid-western teenager, volunteering during summer break in a church program designed to help the poor in a particularly needy country in the South Pacific. During her tenure, that country's poverty and oppressive government caused rioting, and eventually open revolt, followed by a full-out civil war; her group was hastily evacuated, but she chose to stay behind. Subjected to horrors both unimaginable and unseen, and Laura Meredith Kierney of St. Joseph, Missouri (former launch point for the Pony Express, for which the help-wanted ads for riders once read, "Orphans preferred.") took her vows to become Sister Anne Anselm two years later, at the height of the fighting. She and the other nuns left the island country when her mentor, Sister Anselmo, was openly and brutally murdered on the street by a woman who had earlier left her children in the care of the convent. Sister Anne was reassigned to hold together a run-down orphanage in Hawaii, where her jungle survival instincts don't seem to get much play. But the youthful idealism that brought her to help those in need is still there, despite her starchy, no-nonsense manner -- and adventure does tend to follow those who crave it. Her faith and her vows -- many times tried -- will need to stand firm in those tests which still lie ahead. Cy had better watch his step -- for what can appear calm and innocent has been known to violently erupt, like a long dormant volcano.