The Nightingale's Castle: A Novel of Erzsébet Báthory, the Blood Countess Martin Stanev and finding love in unexpected

and finding love in unexpected places

socially poised but financially precarious

The Gospel of Orla is the coming-of-age story of a young girl

deceitful demons

The Nightingale's Castle: A Novel of Erzsébet Báthory, the Blood Countess Martin Stanev and finding love in unexpectedIn the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circewith a touch of Draculaa propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsbet Bthory, the infamous sixteenth century Hungarian aristocrat known as the Blood Countess, who was rumored to have murdered hundreds of peasant girls and bathed in their blood. In 1573, Countess Erzsbet Bthory gives birth to an illegitimate child. Secretly taken to a peasant family living in the foothills of