Regular print version previously published by: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

"One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Val©·re Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a grand house left empty for decades. But Val©·re's ideas of a peaceful retirement are quickly dashed. Rambunctious neighborhood children, a fast-talking gossip of a housekeeper, and a rival novelist filter through the home at all hours of the day -- and by night there are unseen visitors with more sinister intentions. While Antoine Verlaque investigates Val©·re's sordid history, his wife and partner, Marine Bonnet, questions why the estate was abandoned in the first place -- and what they both find raises more questions than answers. Is Val©·re imagining the ethereal cries that fill the bastide at night? Is he losing his mind? Or have these ghosts returned from Val©·re's checkered past to haunt him?"--