Pru is a girl just coming out in Regency England standards. Her only family is her twin brother and he has enlisted to fight Napoleon. She meets a Duke at the ball, the day of Napoleon's attack. He falls in love with her and asks her to marry him. The attack starts and her brother and fiance...
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Pru is a girl just coming out in Regency England standards. Her only family is her twin brother and he has enlisted to fight Napoleon. She meets a Duke at the ball, the day of Napoleon's attack. He falls in love with her and asks her to marry him. The attack starts and her brother and fiance do not return. Pru goes to the battlefield and searches for her brother and fiance. She finds her brother and is about to lose her mind that night as darkness falls when she is rescued by a Frenchman that holds her throught the black night. When dawn comes he leaves her, he does not speak because he is a Frenchman, her enemy. She gets a passing soldier to load her brother's body and a dog befriends her and wants his master loaded to take away too. Pru and the dog take the bodies to England. Pru is destitute and wanders aimlessly with the dog until the dog takes her to a castle. Pierre, the Frenchman follows Pru to England, but fakes an injury and does not speak or he would be shot for being the enemy. Pru tries to make it at the castle and the dog and Pierre help her. Just when she thinks her life is settled Dughlass arrives the brother to her fiance and claims his castle and falls for Pru too. Pru is in love with Pierre but has to hide him from Dughlass. She does not know he is French and turning into a vampire. Pru's goodness keeps the evil at bay with the help of her angel sent from heaven by her brother. The ghosts, demons, and ghouls roam the castle along with Pru's vampire. Dughlass had no idea what is going on but he has to rescue his love. The end has more twists and turns as there is a murderer in it too. You will love the fast pace and sometimes funny slant after so much pain and suffering.