Sepulchre (The Languedoc Trilogy)

Sepulchre (The Languedoc Trilogy)

<b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Labyrinth</i>-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."(<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>)</b><br><br> In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim that Léonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds...<br><br> More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in Rennes-le- Bains while researching the life of Claude Debussy. Haunted by a Tarot reading she had in Paris-and possessing the mysterious deck of cards-she checks into a grand old hotel built on the site of a famous mountain estate destroyed by fire in 1896. There, the pack of Tarot cards and a piece of 19th-century music known as <i>Sepulchre 1891</i> hold the key to her fate-just as they did to the fate of Léonie Vernier.