From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Labyrinth"-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."("Kirkus Reviews") In 1891, young LA(c)onie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as LA(c)onie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim that LA(c)onie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds... 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 "Sepulchre 1891" hold the key to her fate-just as they did to the fate of LA(c)onie Vernier.