William Benson’s new lover has everything – wealth, beauty, intelligence. She was also born four hundred years ago, and she’s kidnapped his son.
Will’s wife is dead, leaving him to bring up his young son alone. When he falls for wealthy, attractive and enigmatic Elizabeth Barlow he thinks his luck has turned. He’s wrong.
Elizabeth’s odd behaviour and a dark secret in her past make Will end the relationship. But Elizabeth comes back to attack him in his home, kidnap his son and disappear. Will thinks things cannot get worse. He’s wrong again.
He tries to track them down and discovers Elizabeth’s past is darker than he ever imagined. Troubling evidence links his son’s kidnapper to other women, stretching back over four centuries. From Elizabeth Barlow, through Eliza Batho, mistress of the British Prime Minister in World War One, and finally back to one of history’s genuine monsters, Countess Erzsebet Bathory. A woman reputed to have murdered hundreds of people for their blood, using witchcraft to prolong her life
Chris’s first novel, Among the Living, is available as an ebook or paperback. It’s a hybrid of modern vampire story and a historical novel with a twist. At times erotic, at others sad, it is a cross between The Historian (but Dracula is a woman) and Marc Behm’s cult classic The Eye of the Beholder.