Author: Mosse, Kate
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 17 February 2022 by Orion Publishing Co (Orion Books Ltd) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 736 pages
129 x 196 x 52 | 516g
1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her older brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. But when Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre she uncovers a timeless mystery and a unique deck of tarot cards that seem to hold power over life and death.
2007. Meredith Martin arrives at the Domaine de la Cade to research a biography. But Meredith is also seeking the key to her own complex legacy and becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, a quest for revenge and the haunting events of one cataclysmic night a century ago . . . 'Brilliantly absorbing . . . richly evocative and full of compelling twists and turns' Red'A powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination' Daily TelegraphBOOK TWO OF THE LANGUEDOC TRILOGY. Now fully revised and updated