New York: Harper & Row, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young adult novel, with a supernatural twist, set in western France.
Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France - Chateau Bois Serpe - there they encounter the owner's strange daughter Mesuline, tending her father's goats. As he befriends her, he begins to realize that there is something very wrong about her, about the chateau, and about her life within it. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-060203951.