Did he encounter some sort of "time-slip", or is his awakening attributable to his own psychological healing? Little by little, he comes to understand the shadows which darken Nulle, and to find release from his own shadowy struggle. Because Freddie is psychologically exhausted, he's also more susceptible to the vibrations of violence, death, mourning, and compassion. Mosse populates this evocative tale with cobbled lanes, hidden caves, mysterious ruins, and mountainous pathways.
Both Freddie and Fabrissa have suffered shattering losses, and they are drawn to each other, sharing their experiences throughout the long evening. Feeling kind of silly, he accepts, and is pleased to make the acquaintance of a lovely young woman in a long blue robe. She invites him to the village fete, to which everyone wears medieval clothing. He's struck by the loneliness of Nulle, but is grateful to be given shelter by a kindly woman who runs a small inn. Freddie decides to drive through the Languedoc, and, caught in a snowstorm in the Pyrennees, he crashes his car and must take refuge in a remote village. Having recovered from a severe breakdown, he's mentally and physically fragile, and his physician recommends an extended holiday. Freddie Watson has lost ten years of his life to his grief over the death of his beloved brother in the Great War. In her third novel, The Winter Ghosts, she departs from the archaeo-thriller genre to try her hand at a ghost story. "Kate Mosse has taken the history of the Cathars, a persecuted religious sect in 14th century France, and made it her own.
By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic, centuries-old mystery, and discovered his own role in the life of this remote town.
Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. By the author of the New York Times-bestselling Labyrinth, a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.
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