Scarlet Nights 1: Starving Artist
by Kate Hill
(Vampire Romance)
After finding his family brutally murdered, Blair tries to end his life, but is instead Changed by a vampire. Burdened by guilt and driven by rage, he dedicates his new life to fighting evil.
When he fails to save a family from the fate his own had suffered, he retreats to endure self-imposed starvation while he immerses himself in his art.
Alone and penniless, May is hired by a mysterious gentleman who sends her to work at his friend’s country manor. Mr. Black is even stranger than the man who hired her, but she is soon infatuated with the handsome, tormented artist who has deeper secrets than she could ever imagine.
Excerpt:
Maybe it was because she arrived at ten minutes to midnight that Wildberry Hill looked ominous. Tangles of bushes lined both sides of the walk leading up to the mansion silhouetted against the enormous autumn moon.
May shivered in her worn cloak and made her way toward the house. Several times she glanced over her shoulder, her heart pounding. She thought she’d heard someone behind her, but it was merely the echo of her own shoes against the cobblestones.
As instructed, she walked to the front door, but hesitated before using the brass knocker. It was terribly inappropriate for a servant to approach the front door, but Mr. Fiske had said her new employer insisted that everyone enter through the front. He’d said Mr. Black was an artist and a bit of a recluse.
From Changeling Press.
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Nice gothic element here the girl and the house
A suitably ominous introduction to a vampire story.
Nice, light touch with delivering a creepy ambiance.
Goose bump city! I like the way she figures it’s her shoes on the cobblestones. Something tells me it wasn’t. 😉