It's Paris in the Spring of 1881--John Singer Sargent's portraits are garnering praise and attention at the Salon, and Violet Paget (aka writer Vernon Lee) is on her way to a literary rendezvous in London. But their lives are interrupted by a dramatic murder at the Mus e de Cluny, where a medieval tapestry is being restored--it may hold the clue to murder Time-travel through the centuries in France as the two intrepid sleuths unravel a mystery...