The Bride of the Sun
Gaston Leroux
In Lima, a young woman takes a golden sun bracelet that marks her as a bride of the Inca sun god, and the last followers of the old cult come to claim her for their sacrifice. Adventure and the fantastic in the Andes, from 1915.
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