The Blood Countess romantasy Winner of The Pen /

Winner of The Pen / Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction

Telling that epic story “in riveting and eye-opening detail

Didion stands as a compelling witness to the difficult and enduring truths of her era—her voice elegiac yet unsentimental

The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives

or writing operas that no one wanted to hear

The Blood Countess romantasy Winner of The Pen /Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster. Whispers have long haunted the castle, the village, and the dark woods: the countess of one of Europes oldest families is a killer, some say bathing in her victims blood. When the kings men storm her manor, they find her in the act, murdering another maid. She is walled up in a tower, seen only from the barred upper window, brooding and cursing those who spoke against her. The legend of the Blood