COUNTESS'S CASTLE,
1825
The Countess was a woman of means.
She grew up in the town of Transylvania. It had been a place, like Romania, full of ancient rites and terror legends; of vampiric legends; of legends that were real; very real.
Vampires were real because they had come from history. Erzebet Bathory was a killer. She slit the throats of virgin Village girls, and bathed in their blood in her royal Bath. This was because she wanted the Elixir of Eterenal Youth; she wanted to be youthful, and remained so.
And she roamed the forests, and was a hunter. Of course, she was a wife and had had children. And she died for her crimes in the 16th century Hungary.
Europe, in that time, was a violent place.
And, two centuries later, nothing changed.
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Countess Bloodstone's parents were poor.
They were good people.
But their daughter wanted more.
On her 14th birthday, she murdered her parents. She grabbed a dagger and stabbed them. And drank their blood.
This was the first time she fed on human blood-it wouldn't be the last.
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THE VAMPIRES OF MIST GATE (BOOK FIVE)
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