Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion: A Novel

“Witty, smart, and sharp as a stake….Tongue in cheek, a bit naughty, and unputdownable, Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion has a brilliance that Ms. Austen would wholly appreciate!”
—Colleen Gleason

The delicious adventures of Jane Austen, vampire, continue! Janet Mullany follows up her delightful vampiric romp, Jane and the Damned, with Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion—pitting the Immortal author against a host of murderous creatures and an annoying ex-lover who intends to hound plucky Jane for all eternity, as she races to prevent an impending Undead civil war. Now fans of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies have more wicked fun to sink their fangs into!

It is 1810, and the Damned are out of favor—banished from polite society. Jane Austen’s old undead friends have become new neighbors, raising hell in her tranquil village just in time to interrupt Jane’s work on what will be her masterpiece. Suddenly Jane’s niece is flirting dangerously with vampires, and a formerly respectable spinster friend has discovered the forbidden joys of intimate congress with the Damned (and is borrowing Jane’s precious silk stockings for her assignations). Writing is simply impossible now, with murderous creatures prowling the village’s once-peaceful lanes. And with the return of her vampire characteristics, a civil war looming between factions of the Damned, and a former lover who intends to spend eternity blaming her for his broken heart, Jane is facing a very busy year indeed.