While skiing in the French Alps, a wild mountain storm forces art student Rory Howes and his friend Knut Olsen to seek refuge at the remote Abbaye St Christophe. They are offered hospitality by the beautiful and enigmatic Baroness Inez Leyresse.
Rory finds himself attracted to Alex, the English au pair, while the Baroness' passion for the young artist becomes obsessive and disturbing. Conscious of this uneasy love tangle, Rory is aware of something far more sinister - the aura of evil, which surrounds the abbey and its inhabitants.
Gradually, they all realise that the centuries-old curse carried by generations of the Leyresse family is gaining a terrifying relevance...
- ISBN10 0754040682
- ISBN13 9780754040682
- Publish Date 31 July 2000 (first published 1 April 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 March 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 328
- Language English