| Author: | Lucinda Elliot | ISBN: | 9781908285621 |
| Publisher: | Freya | Publication: | June 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lucinda Elliot |
| ISBN: | 9781908285621 |
| Publisher: | Freya |
| Publication: | June 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
A dashing highwayman lying low from the Bow Street runners is bitten by a siren half vampire and joins with a dowager's virtuous companion in a Gothic adventure with vampires and time travel.
Young Sophie de Courcy, living as a poor relative with an elderly countesses' family in an isolated mansion on the mountains in North Wales, dreams of romance and adventure, and stands little hope of finding either.
Their unpleasant neighbour Kenrick, with his wild talk of the legends of Transylvannia and of what the Countess calls his 'Mischievous Experiments' with time , is too repulsive for her to find interesting.
When Sophie's long term hero, the rascally Émile Dubois, comes with his confidential manservant on a suspiciously hasty visit to his aunt the countess, Kenrick's machinations draw him, and Sophie too, into a world of man vampires and time warps.
The family would never believe the gossip that Émile is also the notorious highwayman Monsieur Gilles, or that his manservant Georges is his companion in crime, and Sophie is only too happy for them to remain in ignorance.
It is lucky for Sophie that she has a staunch ally in her lady's maid Agnes, who combines common sense with a talent for Tarot reading.
Winner of the coveted BRAG medallion for outstanding self-published fiction, this over-the-top Gothic adventure is full of dark humour, romance and derring-do and an affectionate spoof on the themes of classical Gothic.
A dashing highwayman lying low from the Bow Street runners is bitten by a siren half vampire and joins with a dowager's virtuous companion in a Gothic adventure with vampires and time travel.
Young Sophie de Courcy, living as a poor relative with an elderly countesses' family in an isolated mansion on the mountains in North Wales, dreams of romance and adventure, and stands little hope of finding either.
Their unpleasant neighbour Kenrick, with his wild talk of the legends of Transylvannia and of what the Countess calls his 'Mischievous Experiments' with time , is too repulsive for her to find interesting.
When Sophie's long term hero, the rascally Émile Dubois, comes with his confidential manservant on a suspiciously hasty visit to his aunt the countess, Kenrick's machinations draw him, and Sophie too, into a world of man vampires and time warps.
The family would never believe the gossip that Émile is also the notorious highwayman Monsieur Gilles, or that his manservant Georges is his companion in crime, and Sophie is only too happy for them to remain in ignorance.
It is lucky for Sophie that she has a staunch ally in her lady's maid Agnes, who combines common sense with a talent for Tarot reading.
Winner of the coveted BRAG medallion for outstanding self-published fiction, this over-the-top Gothic adventure is full of dark humour, romance and derring-do and an affectionate spoof on the themes of classical Gothic.
