num_pages: 461
description: In the early 1600s Elizabeth Bthory the infamous Blood Countess ruled achtice Castle in the hinterlands of Slovakia. During bizarre nightly rites she tortured and killed the young women she had taken on as servants. A devil a demon the terror of Royal Hungaryshe bathed in their blood to preserve her own youth. 400 years later echoes of the Countesss legendary brutality reach Aspen Colorado. Betsy Path a psychoanalyst of uncommon intuition has a breakthrough with sullen teenager Daisy Hart. Together they are haunted by the past as they struggle to understand its imprint upon the present. Betsy and her troubled but perceptive patient learn the the curse of the House of Bathory lives still and has the power to do evil even now. The story brimming with palace intrigue memorable characters intimately realized and a wealth of evocative detail travels back and forth between the familiar modern world and a seventeenth-century Eastern Europe brought startlingly to life. Inspired by the actual crimes of Elizabeth Bthory The House of Bathory is another thrilling historical fiction from Linda Lafferty ( The Bloodletters Daughter and The Drowning Guard ). The novel carries readers along with suspense and the sweep of historical events both repellent and fascinating.
language: English
title: House of Bathory
publisher: Lake Union Publishing