Shadows Waiting — Anne Eliot

THE CHATEAU

She first saw the Chateau de Laurais by chill moonlight, and it was as if time had turned back, and she was in an age long past. But then the great oak door opened, a suspicious servant peered out at her, and reality seemed to slap her in the face with a force that almost made her body wilt.

She was Jenny Warren, a young American girl, sent to this ancient chateau by the proud, crippled, brilliant man she desperately, helplessly loved...sent to discover its terrible secret at any cost...sent into a viper's nest of intrigue and treachery to triumph over centuries-old evil...or else be a human sacrifice to it....