As Vital as Blood

Description

Book 1 in the Vic­to­ri­an Vam­pires novel­la series. In 1881, an inno­cent young Eng­lish­woman who ven­tures into mys­te­ri­ous Baron Dalca’s Roman­ian cas­tle may lose her life, her soul…or her heart.

Miss Michael Car­grave is des­per­ate when the death of her book­seller father leaves her and her sis­ter in a dire finan­cial state. When she finds a let­ter from a mys­te­ri­ous for­eign aris­to­crat, Baron Dal­ca, request­ing that her father come work for him, she decides to risk every­thing by trav­el­ing to the Carpathi­an Moun­tains and claim­ing the posi­tion her­self.

Vasile, Baron Dal­ca, expect­ed an elder­ly gen­tle­man schol­ar. Instead he finds on his doorstep a vibrant, coura­geous young woman who stirs him in a way that no woman has since the long-ago death of his wife. But for her sake, he can’t fall in love. He can bring noth­ing but dan­ger to Michael Car­grave.

As Vital as Blood, book one in the Vic­to­ri­an Vam­pires novel­la series, is fol­lowed by As Strong as Earth, avail­able now. If you love the his­tor­i­cal atmos­phere, deft char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, and romance of Aman­da DeWees’s oth­er books set in the Vic­to­ri­an era, you won’t want to miss either one!