1560-1614

"[Presents the biography of] Elizabeth B?thory ... daughter of a powerful family, the wife of a military hero, a concerned mother, and a caretaker of her many lands. Elizabeth B?thory was an accused serial killer ... She may have been responsible for as many as 650 murders over the course of her lifetime"--page four.

"In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth B?thory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth"--Provided by publisher.

A fictionalized account of the life of Countess Erzsebet Bathory, a member of the Hungarian nobility who was imprisoned for life in 1611 after torturing and murdering more than thirty-five women and girls.

Countess Erzebet Bizecka's blood ritual, in which she bathes in the blood of servant girls in order to achieve eternal youth and beauty, becomes dangerous when she meets a handsome stranger who shows her new ways to conduct the ceremony. Based on the life of Countess Erzs?bet B?thory who lived in Hungary in the sixteenth century.