Evangeline Vanderburg

Evangeline Vanderburg is not a typical Victorian lady, she is, in fact, quite exceptional. She is the wife of Vernon Vanderburg, a cruel and greedy but highly successful industrialist who thinks he uses her as a tool for his schemes. But Evangeline is no one’s tool. 
From a young age, she has been celebrated for her beauty and grace.  Her parties are legendary affairs.  However, knowing beauty can only take you so far, she has applied her intelligence and wit to advance her family’s schemes and powers.  She is a well known supporter of scholars who study the old ways and has implemented many old teachings in sustaining her lands.  There are those that whisper that she engages in even darker rituals and that this has been a key in her ability to obtain things such as getting her daughter into schools usually reserved only for those of noble blood, though no one whispers such things in Evangeline’s hearing. 
Her relationships with her family are strained.  She views her daughter as a failure, citing that Coraline would be safely married to a Duke’s son if she had only listened to her mother.  Instead, Coraline is currently missing and presumed transformed into a vampire. Evangeline’s relationship to her husband, Vernon, is quite volatile.  Their marriage was arranged by their families as it was thought that joining the two would result in greater business success and wealth.  This prediction is correct and the spouses have grown the two small family businesses into a financial empire.  However, it is quite obvious that Evangeline and Vernon only remain together for the sake of their businesses and their arguments are legendary. 
As for Evangeline, she cares for nothing except her own pleasure.  As money and power are the ways to ensure that she can enjoy herself as she pleases, she does whatever she deems necessary to ensure Vernon and herself have plenty of both.