Sepulchre

In 1891, young Leonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-les-Bains in southwest France. But nothing is as Leonie had imagined. No graying dowager, their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, with a melancholy air that suits the estate, a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim that Leonie'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-les-Bains while researching the life of Claude Debussy. Haunted by a Tarot reading she had in Paris-and posessing 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 nineteenth-century music known as Sepulchre 1891 hold the key to her fate-just as the did to the fate of Leonie Vernier...