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 aunts i 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 aunts 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...