A Different Hunger
In Victorian London, when an ill-advised love affair sees young Rufus de Hunte challenged to an illegal duel, his father, to avoid the scandal this would bring, banishes him to New Zealand to become a remittance man. During the voyage Rufus meets the captivating Serafina Radzinska, travelling with Anton Springer, who may or may not be her father. Despite his uncertainty, Rufus finds himself falling in love with her – even after he discovers both she and Springer are vampires. When Rufus is badly beaten by the vicious Toby Fox, and seems certain to die, Serafina, who returns his love and fears losing him, turns him into a vampire. Rufus’ horror and resentment threaten their love, but when they reach New Zealand and Serafina is captured by Viviana Alexandreau, an ancient and powerful vampire seeking revenge on Springer, Rufus must acknowledge his true feelings and find a way to rescue her and to end Viviana’s insane vendetta once and for all.
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Lila Richards
Lila Richards lives in a seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, where she shares her home with Merlin the cat (or perhaps the other way round). She works part-time as a sub-editor for the New Zealand Meteorological Service, and runs a small proofreading and editing business. As well as writing, Lila reads eclectically, sews and embroiders, dotes on her grandchildren, and collects things, her particular favourites being old movies, owls, and tacky clocks (a surprisingly abundant species). From time to time she enters the Middle Ages via the Society for Creative Anachronism (an international medieval re-creation group) where she transmogrifies into a ninth-century smallholder's widow from the west of Ireland, and has attained the rank of Baroness.