
Aunt Isolde is young, willowy, and beautiful, yet with a melancholy air that suits the slightly sinister Domaine. But their aunt, and the Domaine, are not what Léonie had imagined.

They’ve come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose estate, the Domaine de la Cade, is famous in the region.

October 1891: Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother, Anatole, abandon the gaslit streets of Paris for the sleepy mountain town of Rennes-les-Bains in southwest France.
