Wolf Alice

Alice is a girl raised by wolves to pick up their habits. A load of religious folk take her to a nunnery, where they attempt to curtail her wild antics, but it proves largely ineffective. Carter describes Alice's journey through puberty and self-awareness as a wolf-child. She later moves in with a Duke, who is also a werewolf. They live completely separate lives, until the Duke is captured by the village people and tried for witchcraft or some such similar thing that religious folk like to persecute people for. Maybe he was gay. Anyway, he gets battered by the village people, and Alice licks his wounds clean. 
That's about it. Why are we reading this? This is incredibly inappropriate and I feel like reading this has violated the inner sanctity of my soul.