A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora Lestrange lives in terror of it all.
MIRA
March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Featuring: Theodora Lestrange; Andrei Dragulescu
400 pages ISBN: 0778327655 EAN: 9780778327653 Trade Size Add to Wish List
With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise
her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh—and a
disappointed suitor—far behind. She is bound for Rumania,
where tales of vampires are still whispered, to visit an old
friend and write the book that will bring her true
independence.
She arrives at a magnificent, decaying castle in the
Carpathians, replete with eccentric inhabitants: the ailing
dowager; the troubled steward; her own fearful friend,
Cosmina. But all are outstripped in dark glamour by the
castle's master, Count Andrei Dragulescu.
Bewildering and bewitching in equal measure, the brooding
nobleman ignites Theodora's imagination and awakens passions
in her that she can neither deny nor conceal. His allure is
superlative, his dominion over the superstitious town,
absolute—Theodora may simply be one more person under his
sway.
Before her sojourn is ended—or her novel completed—Theodora
will have encountered things as strange and terrible as they
are seductive. For obsession can prove fatal…and she is in
danger of falling prey to more than desire.
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