Title: The blood confession
Description: Erzebet is young, beautiful, rich, and imprisoned in her castle, waiting to be sentenced for murder. In a brilliant fiction debut, Alisa M. Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a seventeenth-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever. The jailed countess tells her story from her birth, which was overshadowed by a bad omen, to her mother's mental deterioration, Erzebet's own love for a mysterious figure, and the crimes she committed in pursuit of eternal life.This gripping novel combines gothic horror and romance as it explores the connection between beauty and power.
Subjects: Murder, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Countesses, Blood, Historical Fiction, Personal Beauty, History, Children's fiction, Murder, fiction, Hungary, fiction
Places: Hungary
People: Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614)
Time periods: Turkish occupation, 1526-1699