Joanna Margaret: Souvenir, Gebunden

Klappentext

In this new novel of Gothic suspense from the author of The Daughters, a young American woman studying abroad in Paris is drawn into the orbit of an alluring aristocratic circle with long-buried secrets.

Elise, a twenty-year-old student and aspiring poet steeped in the works of Baudelaire and Buñuel, travels to Paris for a year abroad. When one of her poems is accepted by a literary journal, she meets its editor, the magnetic Charlotte de Reynaud, eldest daughter of a distinguished French family. Charlotte quickly takes Elise under her wing, ushering her into an elite social world---and introducing her to her enigmatic younger brother, Henri.

Elise and Henri fall into an intense, heady romance, marked by moonlit wanderings and a newfound closeness to upper-class life. But just as suddenly, Henri vanishes. Soon after, Elise is invited to spend Easter weekend at the de Reynaud family's ancestral château in the south of France, a visit she hopes will reconnect her with him.

Yet beneath the family's elegance and privilege lies something far more unsettling. As the weekend unfolds, Elise finds herself entangled in a web of long-guarded secrets that challenge her sense of reality, identity, and safety---altering the course of her life in ways she could never have imagined.