Fleur's life revolves around the internet. Unlike the real world, this place offers the data forensics expert a sense of security. When Fleur inherits her hated French grandmother's apartment, she is confronted with her unresolved family history. Following her ancestors' trail, Fleur travels to the Auvergne region of France. There, she stumbles upon a dark secret that stretches back to the Enlightenment. She also comes face to face with a beast that has haunted her family's fate for generations. After this encounter, Fleur will be forever changed. biography Nina Blazon, born in Koper in 1969, grew up in Neu-Ulm and studied Slavic and German studies in Würzburg. Even as a teenager, she was an avid reader, especially of fantasy literature. She began writing herself during her studies—plays and short stories—before writing the fantasy young adult novel "Im Bann des Fluchträgers" (Under the Spell of the Curse Bearer), which won the Wolfgang Hohlbein Prize in 2003. She lives in Stuttgart, where she works as a journalist, translator, and copywriter. New product