The Naked Name of Love is the epic journey of a Jesuit priest who, in 1859, travels across Outer Mongolia in search of a rare white lily but finds he is being followed by a mysterious woman with long black hair on a white horse:

You, he said, and his voice was low yet powerful like the intake of breath a wolf might make before it snarled, will journey far beyond the boundaries of your imagination. You will meet and seize your heart’s desire. It will be the death of your soul.