The Ice Forest — Virginia Coffman

FANTASY OF FEAR

Romantic, young Tawn Tremoyle yearned desperately to escape her carefully circumscribed English life. And when in the fall of 1815 she was invited to France by the wealthy Comtesse de Lussac as a companion for the Comtesse's niece, she was thrilled beyond her own vivid imagination.

But Tawn did not know that once the Comtesse's carriage entered the strange forest of ice that surrounded the remote Chateau de Lussac, everything would change. For in these woods, icicles hung from branches like daggers and dazzling crystals shimmered with an almost palpable malevolence. In those woods a murderous Bonapartist was loose, a girl was missing, and soon Tawn herself would be drawn into a world of unspeakable terror where treachery and evil were omnipresent -- and love was the iciest illusion of all...