OMG! This was so good. I had devoured Ms. Mosse's first book, Labyrinth and loved it, and I have to say that this was even better. This story is split between 1891 and present day. Leonie Vernier is a seventeen-year-old girl living in Paris when mysterious circumstances her older brother Anatole won't disclose send them to their aunt's house in the South of France. In the small town of Rennes-Les-Bains, Leonie encounters dark stories, a mysterious sepulchre in the woods, and unexplained supernatural events. Meanwhile Anatole and their Aunt Isolde are battling their own demons in the form of a strange man named Victor Constant. And above all this is a pack of tarot cards that always seem to be a presence.
In the present day Meredith is in France researching a biography she is writing on Claude Debussey for graduate school. She takes a detour from Paris to Rennes-Les-Bains in the hopes of finding a trail of her unknown ancestors. She has a bizarre tarot reading in Paris, and strange things keep happening to her at the Domaine De La Cade, a very old estate now turned into a hotel. When the two stories merge, it is thrilling.
