"October 1891: " Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother, Anatole, abandon the gaslit streets of Paris for the sleepy mountain town of Rennes-les-Bains in southwest France. They've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose estate, the Domaine de la Cade, is famous in the region. But their aunt, and the Domaine, are not what Leonie had imagined. Aunt Isolde is young, willowy, and beautiful, yet with a melancholy air that suits the slightly sinister Domaine. Leonie discovers that the isolated country house ...
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"October 1891: " Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother, Anatole, abandon the gaslit streets of Paris for the sleepy mountain town of Rennes-les-Bains in southwest France. They've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose estate, the Domaine de la Cade, is famous in the region. But their aunt, and the Domaine, are not what Leonie had imagined. Aunt Isolde is young, willowy, and beautiful, yet with a melancholy air that suits the slightly sinister Domaine. Leonie discovers that the isolated country house and its ancient forests have long been the subject of local superstition; when she stumbles across a ruined Visigoth sepulchre, she unwittingly involves herself with the timeless mystery of this eerie place, which may be spelled out in a strange pack of tarot cards that is rumored to hold the power of life and death. While Leonie delves deeper into the secrets of the Domaine, a different evil stalks her family-one that may explain why Leonie and Anatole were invited to Rennes-les-Bains in the first place. "October 2007: " More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in Rennes-les-Bains. She checks into a grand old hotel-the Domaine de la Cade-and almost instantly, strange dreams and visions begin to haunt her waking hours. A chance encounter leads her to a pack of tarot cards painted by Leonie Vernier, which may hold the key to this twenty-first-century American's fate . . . and explain the ties that bind the two women together. As the Feast of All Saints approaches-when the veil between life and death is thinnest-Meredith is drawn inexorably to a secluded forest glade where the secrets of the past are far from buried.
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Kate Mosse has not let me down in her writings of Labarynth and Sepulcre. They held me captive from page one to the end. Labarynth was the first book I read by her and Sepulcre was even better. I like the fact that she holds the reader in abeyance right up to the end of the book and that she doesn't skimp on what she's writing about. I used to like Balducci, Paterson,, T. Jefferson Parker and Joseph Wambaugh (to name a few) that are just pushing out novels with no thought to what they write. They have been very disappointing to me and my friends and we have boycotted them from our favorite authors. As I stated, Ms. Mosse is new to me and I hope she keeps up the excellent work and doesn't succumb to pushing out books just to keep readers buying them like the afore mentioned. I hope she takes her time and writes what is pleasing to her and her readers and not to the publishers. I rate her last two books as 10 out of 10 and am looking to find the three previous books she has written. Kudos