Gemini Author:Domini Taylor Life smiled on the twins. From the begining they were blessed, blond angels by Fra Angelico set in the frame of their ancestral home in the lush English countryside. — But Gemini tells the story of a blessing that has its darker side, of gifts of precocious talent and uncanny beauty matched by an extravagant curse. — Born into the P... more »alladian surroundings of Sterney Court, Peter and Pandora grow up with lives less troubled than most. It does not matter that their parents are only custodians of the big house. holding it in trust for American cousins. The twins' aristocracy is natural, their grace innate. Well-behaved, considerate, and happy, they are also at first inseparable. Perhaps it is this closeness that gives them the strength to surmount the tragedies that overwhelm their family, and to solace their father, Simon. Only one person has a nagging doubt about the admired and adored twins. Does Aunt Eleanor begin to scent a whiff of deviousness, of ruthlessness in their behavior? What on earth do they have to be ruthless about?...
Domini Taylor's Gemini is a chilling and utterly suspenseful novel about two highly unusual children that starts as a hymn to innocence and ends, shockingly, as a revelation of sheer wickedness. it is even more frightening, more unnerving, and more impossible to put down, than her highly praised Mother Love, which Mystery News called "A chilling masterpiece of domestic horror -- by a talent worthy of comparison to P.D. James," and which the New York Times called "worthy of an Alfred Hitchcock movie."« less