Sepulchre - Kate Mosse, Orion Books

1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Parisfor the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne,the Domaine de la Cade. But in the nearby woods, Léonie stumblesacross a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces arewritten in blood.2007. Meredith Martin arrives at the Domaine de la Cade as part of herresearch for a biography she's writing. But Meredith is also seeking thekey to her own complex legacy and soon becomes immersed in the storyof a tragic love, a missing girl, a unique deck of tarot cards, an unquietsoul and the strange events of one cataclysmic night more than a centuryago...