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John Terpstra agrees to $25.000 for a three-day personal translating job, before he finds out it's at the scene of a murder. But by then he's already headed there, in the limo of the Viscountess- a brilliant noblewoman who doesn't deem it necessary to inform her staff of anything.
Yet she needs John, one of the few outsiders to speak the dying European language of Frisian. So she keeps from him that more horribly mutilated corpses are being found. And that all of them have been murdered without a trace of human involvement.
Then John gets up-close and sees that the murders cannot be explained. Not unless you believe in ancient, European legends.
Conflict arises quickly as they follow a trail of baffling bloodshed. John cannot stand the haughty, overbearing Viscountess and she cannot deal with his American entitlement to equality. She is more intelligent, wealthy and accomplished than he is, and toys with his fears and arguments.
Her gorgeous personal assistant, Miss Smith, keeps whispering into his ear that he won't regret staying. That the Viscountess always gets what she wants, and that she is never, ever wrong.
Until the first member of the Viscountess' staff is found. Murdered, like the others, in a way that cannot be explained.