Eleonora

Five hundred years ago, they buried her alive. Now she wears a crown - and every power in Europe wants it broken.

England, 1824. Eleonora, the weaver's daughter who became the Blood Queen, has built a kingdom out of what no one else wanted. Behind the plague-black walls of Blackveil Manor, she gathers the damned: Felix Crane, the antiquarian who bound his soul to her service; a werewolf who escaped the Church that forged him into a weapon; vampires older than the kingdoms they fled; and Jack, the empty-eyed boy who would kill anyone for her - and who, for the first time in his life, has begun to feel something for a red-haired village girl who has no idea what he is.

But the dead do not rest, and neither do her enemies.

In Rome, Cardinal Vittorio Corsini has been given the Church's oldest weapons and one command: destroy her.

In the north, the last witches of the coven that tortured Eleonora are guarding a secret they have kept for five hundred years - one that could break her completely.

At her own table, the vampires of the Covenant are hiding a theft so old, and so dangerous, that it has a hunter of its own. And he has finally found them.

As a spy moves through her court and a nameless killer stalks the gaslit alleys of Whitechapel, Eleonora must decide what kind of queen she will be - and how much of the woman she once was she is willing to burn to keep what she has built.

The Dark Court of the Blood Queen is the second novel in The Blood Queen Chronicles, a Gothic horror saga of vengeance, loyalty and love that refuses to die. Begin with Eleonora: Rise of the Blood Queen.

For readers of Stephen King, Clive Barker and Anne Rice who like their monsters with a heart - and their hearts with teeth.

Contains graphic violence, torture and body horror.