Letters from the Dead

This addictive debut novel takes us into an intoxicating world of old money,privilegeand family intrigue as a young heiress must return home from a decade-long exile to face the powerful enemies arrayed against herincluding those within her own family. For the first eleven years of her lifethe precocious daughter of a great European family tracing its roots back more than fifteen generationsnever set foot on land that her family didnΓÇÖt own. Cloistered on a sprawling estate in the Alpine foothillsas the youngest sibling of her generation she has little knowledge of the dark forces gathering in the shadows to strike at her family. Butwhen her insatiable curiosity leads her to uncover a priceless text hidden hundreds of years beforeshe shines light into corners meant to be left in the dark and threatens to uncover secrets that could trigger an internecine battle for succession. Thenwith no warning or explanationshe is whisked away on a private jet and exiled to an elite but isolated all-girls boarding school in the United States. More than a decade laternow in her twentiesshe finds her bank accounts abruptly frozen by her family. She is recalled from her affluent but empty existence abroad. Little does she know that her family has plans for herincluding an arranged marriage. Worseas she draws closer to discovering the horrific act that sent her into exile a decade beforeand shadowy enemies close in on her familyshe must face her most dangerous and powerful foe: her own father.