he innocent and the damned... Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the dead, refused to stay buried. Long ago, Donsky had committed a heinous crime against the Vistani, Ravenloft's enigmatic gypsies. He believed he had escaped their wrath, but the unliving can afford to be patient. Now Donskoy's marriage has invoked a dark curse, and cast Margeurite into a web of fear and passion spun by a gypsy with the power to reach out from beyond the grave. In the demiplane of mists, even the dead have their revenge.