Jane and the Damned — Janet Mullany

Jane Austen
Novelist . . . gentlewoman . . .
DAMNED, FANGED, AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW.

Aspiring writer Jane Austen knows that respectable young ladies like herself are supposed to shun the Damned -- the beautiful, fashionable, exquisitely seductive vampires who are all the rage in Georgian England in 1797. So when an innocent (she believes) flirtation results in her being turned -- by an absolute cad of a bloodsucker -- she acquiesces to her family's wishes and departs for Bath to take the waters, the only known cure.

But what she encounters there is completely unexpected: perilous jealousies and further betrayals, a new friendship and a possible love. Yet all that must be put aside when the warring French invade unsuspecting Bath -- and the streets run red with good English blood. Suddenly only the staunchly British Damned can defend the nation they love . . . with Jane Austen leading the charge at the battle's forefront.