Red As Blood
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After the death of her adoptive father ten years prior, Honoria Wells started anew in New Orleans with her own people, still terrified of his looming shadow in every doorway. Her quiet life as a painter is interrupted by a wedding invitation from Flora, her estranged adopted sister, set to marry a Lord in a mansion hidden in the fog of the Yorkshire Moors.
But the letter accompanying the invitation does not sound like the sister she once knew and against her better judgement she travels across the sea to attend the wedding festivities. From the moment Honoria sets foot in Yorkshire, nothing is as it seems. The stately manor Alfred House is cold and somewhat crumbling, Lord Henry Watson and his family are kind yet distant, and Flora is bright one moment, then frail the next.
Honoria simply wishes to paint Flora and Henry as a gift and leave early but a guest arrives, a prince from somewhere in The Carpathian Mountains.
Out of the hundreds of guests, Prince Emil has set his sight on her and wherever she is, he seems to follow.
It should scare her but it doesn't.
As the wedding planning ends and festivities truly begin,strange events begin to occur. Servants and guests alike go missing, Flora's epilepsy from childhood has returned, and the constant painting that has kept Honoria's sleepwalking and nosebleeds at bay is no longer effective.
There is a darkness within Alfred House and in the moors and it wants Honoria, of that she is certain.
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