Sepulchre

　　一八九一年

　　十七歲的蕾歐妮．費尼耶和哥哥安納托離開巴黎，往南逃難到舅媽位於卡爾卡松鎮附近、偏僻的鄉間別墅──凱德莊園。蕾歐妮後來發現一座破敗的古墓，和一段充滿血腥的古老傳說。

　　二○○七年

　　梅莉迪絲．馬汀為了做研究和書寫一本傳記，而來到凱德莊園飯店。她此行的目的，也包括追查自己複雜的身世之謎，結果卻深陷一段悲劇愛情中。

　　一位失蹤的女孩、一曲淒美哀傷的旋律、一副罕見的塔羅牌和百年前某個夜晚所發生的離奇劇變……

　　From the author of the New York Times– bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century France.

　　In 1891, young Leonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They’ve come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt Isolde—and the Domain—are not what Leonie had imagined. The villagers claim that Isolde’s late husband died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre high on the mountainside. A book from the Domain’s cavernous library describes the strange tarot pack that mysteriously disappeared following the uncle’s death. But while Leonie delves deeper into the ancient mysteries of the Domain, a different evil stalks her family—one which may explain why Leonie and Anatole were invited to the sinister Domain in the first place.

　　More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in France to study the life of Claude Debussy, the nineteenth century French composer. In Rennesles- Bains, Meredith checks into a grand old hotel—the Domain de la Cade. Something about the hotel feels eerily familiar, and strange dreams and visions begin to haunt Meredith’s waking hours. A chance encounter leads her to a pack of tarot cards painted by Leonie Vernier, which may hold the key to this twenty-first century American’s fate . . . just as they did to the fate of Leonie Vernier more than a century earlier.

　　★本書中譯版《不安的靈魂》由尖端出版。

作者簡介

凱特．摩斯（Kate Mosse）

　　凱特．摩斯出版過五本小說，其中包括全球暢銷小說《謎宮》。此書被翻譯成三十七種語言，且於四十多國出版上巿，並贏得「二○○六年理查德和朱迪最佳讀物」的榮譽，也被英國最大連鎖書店Waterstone選為「二十五年來小說二十五強」之一。而《古墓》同樣也會翻譯成三十七種語言，並在四十多國上巿。

　　凱特．摩斯目前是小說類「柑橘獎」的創辦人之一和榮譽主席。她和家人不定時地輪流住在英國的西薩塞克斯郡，或是法國西南部的卡爾卡松鎮。欲知詳情，請上www.sepulchre.co.uk

　　Kate Mosse is the cofounder and honorary director of the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she is also a highly regarded television and radio host.