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New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set in 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight.
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent in the middle of the carnival season, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music to its fancy soirées and even its danger. She becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s enigmatic leader, Sébastien Saint Germain.
When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in Sébastien’s own lair–the second dead girl to turn up in recent weeks–Celine battles her attraction to Sébastien and suspicions about his guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.
After a third murder, New Orleans becomes gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose–one who has now set Celine in his sights. As the murderer stalks her, Celine finally takes matters into her own hands, only to find herself caught in the midst of an age-old feud between the darkest creatures of the night, where the price of forbidden love is her life.
At once a sultry romance and a decadent, thrilling mystery, master storyteller Renée Ahdieh embarks on her most potent fantasy series yet.
來自紐時暢銷作家芮妮·阿底耶的華麗、性感和浪漫的青年(YA)吸血鬼系列的第一本書(立刻成為暢銷書)。現在以平裝本面世。
一八七二年,紐奧爾良是一座由亡靈統治的城市。但對於十七歲的席琳·盧梭來說,紐奧爾良是她逃離巴黎裁縫生涯的避風港。被烏爾蘇拉修道院修女收留的席琳在引起了神秘領袖塞巴斯蒂安·聖日耳曼的注意後,她很快就被這座充滿活力的城市迷住了。塞巴斯蒂安是這座城市耀眼炫目的黑社會(稱作獅子宮)頭子。
一名修道院的女孩被人發現陳屍在塞巴斯蒂安的住所--這是最近幾週出現的第二個女孩的屍體--席琳對塞巴斯蒂安懷有好感,卻不禁要懷疑他是否涉案,她對自己不堪的過去感到自慚形穢。
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