A fifteen year Belgian girl is kidnapped to be sacrificed by Lucifer's most experienced emissary in a Black Magic ceremony designed to allow Lucifer himself to cross the Abyss into the real world and use God's most powerful gift to mankind to open the gates to Hell. But she may not be the innocent. helpless victim that Lucifer's disciples took her to be! Cherie LeClerc has history, four thousand years of history! Imprisoned Alone in the darkness below the famous caves of Kents Cavern she is mystified by dreams of a Druid Princess in a circle of stones older than Stonehenge and a woman who took an oath to serve God at the time of the Fall of Jerusalem to the armies of Saladin at the end of the first Crusade. Are these women who call to her really herself in previous incarnations? Just who was Isabella De Montferrat and why did Peter The Hermit chose her to serve God? The eight hundred year old Abbey of Torre is the cornerstone of the history of the English Riviera, birthplace of Agatha Christie but even her imagination could not have conjured up the mystery that Cherie LeClerc must solve if she is to live and fulfil the oath that Isabella De Montferrat undertook. Torre Abbey has a secret it's kept since the first Crusade. The dark secret has cost many a life and now the evil it guards against has been awoken! The ex-communicated Reverend Hainsley - Sihl has spent years excavating the tunnels that connect Torre Abbey to the Caves of Kents Cavern. He will kill and kill again to realise the full power of the awesome weapon he now has possession of. To assist him Lucifer has given him a terrible 'familiar', a creature whose very presence can instil terror. A young woman's body in the fishing nets at Hopes Nose was not my idea of the perfect Christmas... Detective Inspector Mike Milton wants to retire but it won't be this Christmas, the woman he has loved a lifetime but never won the heart of is missing too!