When Richard Ulrome is offered the chance to work for billionaire oilman Simon Miaolo, Anne Blackwell is pleased for her fiance's career. But as time goes by, Richard almost becomes a prisoner at Monteine Castle, Miaolo's feudal headquarters. Slowly, Anne begins to realize that Richard--and she--are being manipulated by a master of Evil in a hideous satanic ritual of sacrifice and renewal as old as time. Like others before her, she finally turns to Ruane the Witchfinder, a defrocked priest who will listen to her tale of horror, a man waging his own private war against the Devil. Together, she and Ruane and several others must find a way to stop...THE EVIL AT MONTEINE "