sepulchre

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century France. 1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcasonne, the Domaine of de la Cade. But Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood. 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 become immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, a unique deck of tarot cards and the strange events of one cataclysmic night a century ago...