Arriving at their family chateau in southern France, Charlotte hopes to regain her memories. Instead, strange events hint at underlying darkness and menace. Sarah Ridout, in the style of Daphne du Maurier and Kate Morton, presents a suspenseful gothic tale full of beauty and mystery.
Cass Moriarty lives and writes in Brisbane. She has worked in public relations and marketing, and volunteered as a counsellor in child protective services. She began writing fiction after the birth of her sixth child. The Promise Seed, her first novel, was shortlisted in the Emerging Author category of the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards.
Sarah Ridout has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University College Dublin, where she also contributed to the anthology New Tricks With Matches. Over the past eleven years she has lived in four countries with her husband and two children, including eight years surrounded by the vineyards and chateaus of southern France, which seeded the idea for her first novel. Le Chateau was selected to participate in the Queensland Writers Centre/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program before it was acquired by Echo Publishing. Sarah is currently based in Brisbane.
