Daughter of the Night
By Elaine Bergstrom, 1992
Series: Austra Family

"Elizabeth Bathori (whose character is based on the real "Blood Countess") is a strong willed young woman who was raised on tales of spirits of the forest and taught by example that her servants are beneath being treated fairly. She is educated and pampered, but her father controls her fate, dictating whom she must marry. The satisfaction she discovers she gets from violence leads her to take out her frustrations on anyone of low enough station to be at her mercy. Enter into her life Catherine Austra, a reclusive vampire who becomes fascinated by Elizabeth. Although she has never cared for a mortal before, Catherine finds herself loving the angry young Elizabeth, and they wake in each other passions they thought were only for others. But something within Elizabeth is tainted and warped, and over time she becomes more and more disconnected from her humanity, despite, or perhaps because of, Catherine's influence." (from the Official Elaine Bergstrom Web Page)

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