The blood confession

Erzebet is young, beautiful, rich, and imprisoned in her castle, waiting to be sentenced for murder. In a brilliant fiction debut, Alisa M. Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a seventeenth-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever. The jailed countess tells her story from her birth, which was overshadowed by a bad omen, to her mother's mental deterioration, Erzebet's own love for a mysterious figure, and the crimes she committed in pursuit of eternal life.This gripping novel combines gothic horror and romance as it explores the connection between beauty and power.

Year

2009

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin USA, Inc.

Editions

1

ISBN

9781440675645

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