'Forgive me,' he muttered. 'I have gone too far. I am sorry.' Belinda was too shocked to speak.
The sensation she had experienced from just a fleeting touch had taken her breath away.

At an archduke’s reception, a handsome young nobleman falls under the spell of a malevolent but irresistible sorceress. Two hundred years later, Belinda Seward also falls prey to sensual forces she can neither understand nor control. Stranded by a thunderstorm at a remote Gothic priory, Belinda and her boyfriend are drawn into an enclosed world of luxurious decadence and sexual alchemy.

Their host is the courteous but melancholic André von Kastel; a beautiful aristocrat who mourns his lost love. He has plans for Belinda – plans which will take her into the realms of obsessive love and the erotic paranormal.

Author: Portia Da Costa