A gothic tale about Victor Hugo's long-buried secrets and the power of a
love that never dies...
In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo's beloved nineteen-year-old daughter
drowned. Ten years later, still grieving, Hugo initiated hundreds of
séances from his home on the Isle of Jersey in order to reestablish
contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with
Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus--and even the devil himself.
Hugo's transcriptions of these conversations have all been published.
Or so it has been believed...
Recovering from a great loss, mythologist Jac L'Etoile thinks that
throwing herself into work will distract her from her grief. In the
hopes of uncovering a secret about the island's mysterious Celtic roots,
she arrives on Jersey and is greeted by ghostly Neolithic monuments,
medieval castles and hidden caves. But the man who has invited her
there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, hopes she'll help him
discover something quite different--transcripts of Hugo's lost
conversations with someone he called the Shadow of the Sepulcher.
Central to his heritage, these are the papers his grandfather died
trying to find. Neither Jac nor Theo anticipate that the mystery
surrounding Victor Hugo will threaten their sanity and put their very
lives at stake.
Seduction is a historically evocative and atmospheric tale of suspense
with a spellbinding ghost story at its heart, written by one of
America's most gifted and imaginative novelists. Awakening a mystery
that spans centuries, this multilayered gothic tale brings a time, a
place and a cast of desperate characters brilliantly to life.
