In 1763, the Red Death swept across the civilized world. The old kingdoms, morality, faith, and order all collapsed, and ancient, evil shadows emerged once more.
Seville, a great city of civilization at the boundary between East and West, where cultures and peoples converge, is about to see more than half of its nearly one million people fall beneath the scythe of the plague's Grim Reaper.
Teresa Aquino is an ordinary young noblewoman. But at the crossroads of her life at seventeen, she is embraced and transformed into the legendary first vampire. Once human, she longs to end the plague and save the city that raised her. But as a vampire, she is cursed by fate and forced to treat the people she once cherished as food.
The Inquisition, the Royal Knights, the Blood Kin Fellowship, the Valerian Holy Order, the Twilight Hermitage, Mithras's scarlet sun... Facing priests, vampire hunters, and undying blood kin, should she become the Witch of Babylon, bringer of destruction, or the Holy Child of Blood, bearer of salvation?
A Western fantasy novel with a female first-person narrator, leaning toward yuri. The setting draws inspiration from the Spanish series The Plague and the recent game Vampyr.
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