Authors: Kate Mosse, Donada Peters (Narrated by), Donada Peters
ISBN-13: 9781616852412, ISBN-10: 1616852410
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: April 2008
Edition: Bargain
Kate Mosse is the co-founder and honorary director of the Orange Prize for Fiction and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
In 1891, young LÃ onie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in the Pyrenees of southwest France. Born and raised in Paris, they've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their auntand the Domainare not what Leonie had imagined. For starters, Tante Isolde is no graying dowagershe is young, willowy, and beautiful, but with a melancholy air that suits the strange, slightly sinister Domain de la Cade. Leonie discovers that the house has long been the subject of local superstition. The villager claim that the Devil walks in the forests of the Domain, and that Isolde's late husband died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre high on the mountainside. A book from the Domain's cavernous library describes not only the spell used to bring forth the demon, but the strange Tarot pack that is part of the ritual, a set of...
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