Content levels
Trigger warnings
Positive tags
Hero archetypes
Heroine archetypes
Tropes
Synopsis
For art student Rory Howes and his friend Knut Olsen, a skiing holiday in the French Alps is interrupted by a freak mountain storm. Forced to take refuge in the remote Abbaye St. Christophe, they meet the beautiful and fascinating Baroness Inez Leyresse who offers them her generous hospitality. But for another occupant of the abbey, the English au pair Alex Amery, their arrival means company of her own age. While Rory acknowledges his growing love for Alex, the Baroness' passion for the young artist becomes obsessive and disturbing, an her behavior assumes ever more alarming proportions. Conscious of this uneasy love tangle, Rory also becomes aware of something far more sinister - the aura of undercurrent evil, which surrounds the abbey and its inhabitants. Gradually, they all realise that the centuries-old curse which has dogged generations of the Leyresse family is gaining a dreadful and terrifying relevance....
Is Always the Black Knight appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Parents should know this contains obsessive/disturbing romantic behavior, supernatural horror elements including a family curse, and psychological tension. The love triangle involves possessive dynamics and mounting danger.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, obsession, and manipulation (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens who enjoy atmospheric gothic romances with supernatural elements and mysterious old buildings will find this compelling.