Author: Kate Mosse

This is a book I picked up at a yard sale this summer. The biggest draw to the book was the size – over 700 pages. I noticed that this is listed as a time-lapse book in that the story takes place during a couple of time frames.

Leonie Vernier is a 17-year old girl living in Paris in the late 1800s. When an aunt asks her and her brother to visit her on the family estate, Domaine de la Cade, they are happy to get out of the city. The brother is embroiled in “something” and Leonie is happy to have the company of her brother to herself.

Meredith Martin is writing a biography of Debussy who lived in the apartment below the Vernier’s. Her reason for visiting the Domaine de la Cade in 2007 has very little to do with Dubussy. It is her belief that somewhere in her past she has a link to the Vernier family.

The story takes you into the occult and a unique deck of tarot cards. A bit like an Anne Rice novel, but not quite as good. This is the second book in a trilogy but the other books are also time-lapses and a quick review didn’t seem to have much to do with this particular story.

Goodreads Rating: * * *