Ysabel

About this book

Ned Marriner is spending six weeks with his father in France where the celebrated photographer is shooting Saint-Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence. Both father and son fear for Neds mother - a physician with Doctors Without Borders currently assigned to the civil war-torn country of Sudan. This is not the first time shes placed herself in harms way to help alleviate suffering - and Ned has inherited her courage. Hell need it. While exploring the cathedral Ned meets Kate Wenger an American exchange student with a deep knowledge of the areas history. But even Kate is at a loss when she and Ned surprise a scar-faced stranger wearing a leather jacket and carrying a knife deep inside the cathedral. "I think you ought to go now " he tells them. "You have blundered into a corner of a very old story..." In this ancient place where the borders between the living and the long-dead are thin Ned and his family are about to be drawn into a haunted tale as mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present changing - and claiming - lives.