Publisher: Robert Hale UK

Release Date: September 2006

Leaving the safety of Victorian England, Cristabel accepts a post in far-off Austria.  Once she arrives at the fairy-tale schloss, she is immediately intrigued by the inhabitants: her charge, the spoiled and willful Liesel Von Holstein; handsome widower Count Max Von Holstein, eccentric Aunt Gisela, the charming cousins Karl and Sibylla and a host of resentful servants…

But there is a dark side to the castle on the mountain. As Cristabel establishes herself in her new role, she can’t help being drawn to the unsolved mysteries of the past.

Moving from beautiful lake-side country to the bustle of 1873 Vienna, Cristabel moves closer to her fate, never suspecting her family heirloom of a rare serpent bracelet is somehow connected with the Von Holsteins…and to a secret, dangerous past…