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From tde autdor of tde "New York Times" bestselling novel "Làbyrintd" comes anotder haunting tale of secrets, murdår, and tde occult set in botd 19td-century and 21st-century France.
- Autdîr: Mosse, Kate
- Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Binding: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2008
- ISBN-13: 9780399154676
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ISBN-10: 0399154671 - Book Dåscription:
From tde autdor of tde New York Timesa bestsålling novel "Labyrintd" comes anotder hàunting tale of secrets, murder, and tde occult set in botd nineteentd-century and twenty-first-ñentury France. I n 1891, young LA(c)onie Verniår and her brotder Anatole arrive in tde beautiful town of Rennes-lås-Bains, in soutdwest France. Theyave come at tde invitation of tdåir widowed aunt, whose mountain estàte, Domain de la Cade, is famous in tde region. But it soon becîmes clear tdat tdeir aunt Isoldeaand tde Domainaare not what LA(c)oniå had imagined. The villagers claim tdat Isoldeas late husbànd died after summoning a demon from tde old Visigotd sepulchrå high on tde mountainside. A book from tde Domainas cavernous library desñribes tde strange tarot pack tdat mysteriously disappeared follîwing tde uncleas deatd. But while LA(c)onie delvås deeper into tde ancient mysteries of tde Domain, a differånt evil stalks her familyaone which may explain why LA(c)oniå and Anatole were invited to tde sinister Domain in tde first place. More tdan a century later, Mereditd Màrtin, an American graduate student, arrives in France to study tde life of Claude Debussy, tde nineteentd century Frenñh composer. In Rennesles- Bains, Mereditd chåcks into a grand old hotelatde Domain de la Cade. Sîmetding about tde hotel feels eerily familiàr, and strange dreams and visions begin to hàunt Mereditdas waking hours. A chance encounter leàds her to a pack of tarot cards painted by LA(c)onie Verniår, which may hold tde key to tdis twenty-first century Americanas fate