Can Sophie de Courcy's maid's ridiculous tarot predictions for them both for 1795 be coming true?
Agnes foresees a villainous admirer from abroad for each of them, and a battle with dark forces.
Sophie dreams of adventure and romance. Still, living as she is as a dowager's companion in an isolated mansion in North Wales, this prediction seems even more absurd.
But now, Sophie's long term hero – the roughish French émigré Émile Dubois, comes to say, bringing his strutting confidential manservant.
Surely, there can't be any truth in the rumours that Émile and the London highwayman Monsieur Gilles are the same person, and his man his companion in crime?
Why does Émile insist that he met Sophie in Revolutionary Paris – where she has never been – and why is he so angry with her for denying it?
Meanwhile, their sinister neighbours, the long-toothed Kenrick and his magnificent siren like wife, are up on a visit from Town themselves. Kenrick is full of wild talk about the legends of Romania, and of travel through time.
Émile laughs at his ideas. Still, can he resist Mistress Kenrick's voluptuous charms?
Can Sophie prevent them all from being drawn into a Kenrick's dark experiments?
Winner of the coveted BRAG medallion for outstanding self-published fiction, this over-the-top Gothic adventure is full of dark humour, romance and derring-do and an affectionate spoof on Gothic tropes.