<p><strong>Packed with horror romance and beautifully overwrought emotion</strong>. Norah Vawter author and editor</p><p>In a world where darkness reigns and escape is only an illusion...</p><p>A young woman fleeing the clutches of an abusive father stumbles upon an abandoned abbey on the edge of a haunted forest. But what she finds there is far worse than anything she left behind.</p><p>Within the crumbling walls of the Abbey of San Pietro ancient horrors stir. A mysterious old woman holds secrets of the past and an unearthly being watches from the shadows-a being with the power to raise the dead and a thirst for vengeance.</p><p>Driven by damnation and bitterness he weaves a sinister plan using the living and the dead as his pawns. But is it love or something far more dangerous that motivates him?</p><p>In this gothic tale of love betrayal and unholy retribution nothing is what it seems. Will she escape the abbey... or become part of its eternal curse?</p>