To Sleep with Evil

Ravenloft: The Covenant, Book 3

By: Andria Cardarelle

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the dead, refused to stay buried. Now Donskoy's marriage has invoked a dark curse, and Marguarite into a web of fear and passion.

©1996 TSR, Inc., c. 2007 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Poor reading

The narrator made every character sound like they were seducing people non stop until the last few chapters. Although it may have been fitting for one of the characters, it was not for the Lord.

A chore to get through

I vaguely remember reading this when it first came out in paperback, but barely. Mostly I remembered that this was the last Ravenloft (no "Covenant" in the titles at the time) novel I remember trying to read.
The author only ever wrote this one novel. She was mostly a game designer, who contributed to various gaming supplements.
I cannot recommend enduring this tedious novel. It seems to take forever to get anywhere, and does very little beyond attempting to establish an atmosphere that tries to simulate Gothic Romance/Horror, while remaining PG.
Christine Williams does the best she can with the material provided, but honestly, you can't polish a bowel movement.
Update: I gave up after the half-way point. It was just too darned painful.