Bathory Book One: Europe (Wanga Series) - Softcover

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In 1573, thirteen-year-old Erzsébet Báthory gives birth to a daughter history must never know existed.

Before sunrise, the child is gone.

Her name is Ilona.

Years earlier, in the court of Catherine de’ Medici, Nostradamus had already written of a hidden daughter from an eastern house—a bloodline whose flesh would one day refuse age, death and decay.

Catherine wants the secret before it has even been discovered.

She is not the last.

What begins with whispered remedies, experimental medicine and one concealed child becomes something far more dangerous: a treatment capable of changing the natural course of human life.

But it is not immortality.

Everything dies.

Some people simply stop dying when they should.

Across centuries of European history, the descendants of the Bathory bloodline survive kings, queens, plague, fire, war, medicine, superstition and the increasingly inconvenient habit of governments keeping records.

Names change.

Mothers become daughters.

Brothers become nephews.

Families move before neighbours notice that the faces in old portraits have not aged.

And behind every new identity lies the same problem.

The treatment works.

The source has a price.

As Margaréta—Maggie to those who know her best—turns inherited knowledge into a system capable of surviving generations, she must decide what her family is willing to become in order to continue existing. Around her grow the people who will shape the Bathory legacy: Fred, János, Eleanor, William and Anne—some choosing the family’s impossible inheritance, others refusing it, and all discovering that living longer does not protect anyone from grief.

By the nineteenth century, Europe is becoming too crowded with records, rumours…and ghosts.

The Bathorys have survived almost everything the old world could do to them.

Now they must leave it behind.

Australia knows nothing about their name.

Yet.

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