The ruins - Phoebe Wynne

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• The most dazzling summer casts the darkest shadows.
• Welcome to the Chateau des S�tes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it.
• Ruby Ashby adores her parents' house in France, but this August, everything feels different.
• Unexpected guests have descended upon the chateau--friends of her parents, and their daughters--and they are keen to enjoy the hot, extravagant summer holiday to its fullest potential.
• Far from England, safe in their wealth and privilege, the adults revel in bad behavior without consequence, while the girls are treated as playthings or abandoned to their own devices.
• But despite languid days spent poolside and long nights spent drinking, a simmering tension is growing between the families, and the sanctuary that Ruby cherishes soon starts to feel like a gilded cage.
• Over two decades later the chateau is for sale, its days of splendor and luxury long gone, leaving behind a terrible history and an ugly legacy.
• A young widow has returned to France, wanting to purchase the chateau, despite her shocking memories of what transpired that fateful summer.
• But there is another person who is equally haunted by the chateau, and who also seeks to reclaim it.
• Who will set the chateau free--and who will become yet another of its victims?