Leanbh Pearson
1917, Australia.In the aftermath of an alternate ending to the First World War, mass frontline casualties and a mysterious pandemic have decimated governments and the environment across much of Europe and the world, Australia included.Anna Baylon lives with her parents, scraping a meagre living in the drought-ridden, abandoned, and mostly isolated town of Berrima near Sydney, waiting for news of her older brother, Peter, who enlisted years before. The arrival of a handsome, mysterious stranger, Nicolas de Laon, her brother’s lover, turns her world upside down. Anna’s strength is tested when she follows Nicolas-a vampire-from the safety of her home, determined to learn Peter’s fate.But Nicolas’s darkness isn’t confined to his vampiric hereditary. And when Anna learns the darker truth, can she forgive him? A steamy dystopian thriller from Leanbh Pearson.
