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The torpor does little to deter the crowd from making merry, jostling and calling out bawdy well-wishes to the newly wed lord and lady. Even though the year has just rounded into spring, it is unnaturally hot, without a breath of wind to cut the unwashed reek of massed bodies.

It looks as though some divine hand has scored a sharp fingernail into the flesh of the firmament.Ī bitter sky, I think, near as squalid as the day itself. Low on the horizon, where the clotted scrim of clouds breaks open, a mean sliver of crescent moon already perches though it’s barely afternoon. What then, I wonder as I gaze up, does this bode for our lord and his mink-haired new wife? As their grand wedding procession wends its way through our village, the heavens leer down on us, unforgiving and leached of sun. Even my mother, usually so scathing of superstitions held by lesser minds, believes this to be true. They say the sky on a wedding day portends the marriage to come. The day our Lord Nadasdy weds the countess, the sky above us is the color of bleached bone. Then come the murders, and Anna knows it’s only a matter of time before the Blood Countess turns on her.

Isolated from her former friends, family, and fiancee, Anna realizes she’s not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel Elizabeth.

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It’s not long before Anna falls completely under the Countess’s spell-and the Countess takes full advantage. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the Countess begins to groom Anna as her friend and confidante. When Elizabeth takes a liking to Anna, she’s vaulted to the dream role of chambermaid, a far cry from the filthy servants’ quarters below. It’s not long before Anna falls completely under In 17th-century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Baathory. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the countess begins to groom Anna as her friend and confidante.

A YA horror novel based on Countess Elizabeth Baathory, the infamous, real-life inspiration for Countess Dracula! In 17th-century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Bathory.