



"Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jane Austen." – The Book Standard "Gleason keeps upping the ante with each novel, weaving the characters around her readers with each engaging conversation and narrative, every stage set of all the appropriate gothic gloom and melting beauty." – Book Fetish "Gleason is really on a roll!" – Publishers Weekly As their combined bloodthirsty army ravages the city streets, Victoria races to solve the age-old mystery - if she fails, the world is lost for ever.The third volume in award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Colleen Gleason's International Bestselling Gardella Vampire Hunter Series. In yet another play for power, vampires have formed an unholy alliance with the demon Akvan in order to gain access to an ancient alchemist's secrets. But her personal grief must be set aside for there is a sinister plot underway. As Rome prepares for its Carnivale, vampire hunter Lady Victoria Gardella is in no mood for festivities. He felt the tiny, warm drip of blood from his cheek where she'd cut him, and the unbearable closeness when she leant forward and pressed an open-mouthed kiss to the edge of his jaw, over the trickle of blood. In yet another play for power, vampires have formed an unholy alliance with the demon Akvan in order to gain access to an ancient.

