A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who
died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a
medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called
to art historian Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague
into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt
soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long-forgotten damned
stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous
possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place .
. . or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is
determined to find.