From an early age, Elena Farkas Trescu found herself ensnared by a rare blood disease that had haunted her lineage for countless generations. At the tender age of three, she lost her mother under circumstances only the darkest whispers allude to. Two years later, the very ailment that claimed her mother's life descended upon her, condemning her to a grim and foreboding fate. Abandoned by her own father, cast adrift in a world devoid of warmth, she was drawn into the shadows of an orphanage nestled in the heart of the city. Since then, she awaits the imminent visit of death with an unsettling resignation, a funereal companion that seems to lurk in every shadow.
13 parts