When Tim Ekaterin, a young inevestment banker, arranges a loan for the purchase of a racehorse being put out to stud, he finds himself caught up in a complex web of deceit, violence, and murder.
After a series of violent deaths, including her mother's, all preceded by the same strange message, Finley Wuehrmann, increasingly terrified by the evil involved, seeks out the killer.
Mysterious events are set in motion when a sixteen-year-old American girl and her family come to France to claim their legacy of an abandoned country cottage.
