Three hundred years before Jessie Seville’s birth, the Curse of the Lamia fell upon the dark mysterious land of Romania claiming as its victim Prince Viktor Brincoveanu.  It is a curse that truly knows no boundaries.  Not even the royal blood of its own prince can escape its power.

On his wedding day, Prince Brincoveanu must make the ultimate sacrifice and send his beloved bride Gabrielle’ away from him forever to save her from the curse.  In her sorrow Gabrielle’ takes her own life and with her death begins the prince's own endless journey of merely existing as Lamia.  Now, three hundred years after her death Gabrielle’ has returned once more to Romania and to her prince as the young American writer Jessie Seville who travels there in search of her missing friend, Lili Von Eyssen.

From the moment Jessie arrives in Romania, memories of Gabrielle' return to haunt her with the truth.  She and Prince Brincoveanu had once been in love.  There is a darker side to him now that both frightens and entrances her.  As Jessie and her prince struggle to accept the precious gift of the return of their love, Jessie finds she will be forced to choose between her father’s love and desire to save his only child from certain death and her husband’s dark promise of everlasting life

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                                            Mary Eason

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