Blood
Diva
by VM
Gautier
Genre: Urban
Fantasy
Number of pages:
435
Word Count: 121,000
Book
Description:
The 19th
century's most infamous party-girl is undead and on the loose in the Big Apple.
When 23 year-old
Parisian courtesan, Marie Duplessis succumbed to consumption in 1847, Charles
Dickens showed up for the funeral and reported the city mourned as though Joan
of Arc had fallen. Marie was not only a celebrity in in her own right, but her
list of lovers included Franz Liszt – the first international music superstar,
and Alexandre Dumas fils, son of the creator of The Three Musketeers. Dumas
fils wrote the novel The Lady of the Camellias based on their time together.
The book became a play, and the play became the opera La Traviata. Later came
the film versions, and the legend never died.
But what if when
offered the chance for eternal life and youth, Marie grabbed it, even when the
price was the regular death of mortals at her lovely hand?
Today, Marie
wonders if perhaps nearly two centuries of murder, mayhem, and debauchery is
enough, especially when she falls hard for a rising star she believes may be
the reincarnation of the only man she ever truly loved. But is it too late for
her to change? Can a soul be redeemed like a diamond necklace in hock? And even
if it can, have men evolved since the 1800′s? Or does a girl’s past still mark
her?
Blood
Diva is a sometimes humorous, often dark and erotic look at sex, celebrity,
love, death, destiny, and the arts of both self-invention and seduction. It’s a
story that asks a simple question – Can a one hundred ninety year-old
demimondaine find happiness in 21st century Brooklyn without regular infusions
of fresh blood?
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