The Kingdom of Lyonnais was unlike its neighbors. Ruled by women for most of its history, Lyonnais could boast of having rulers blessed by the gods.
One of three children born to the royal bloodline are hermaphrodites: beings who, besides possessing the sexual characteristics of both men and women, were capable of entrancing all those who stumbled upon their path.
Gabrielle was the royal princess, heir to the throne, and a hermaphrodite like many of her ancestors before her. She was prepared to assume the crown when her father died, but an attack by an ambitious duke intending to kill her forced her out of the palace, and out of the city where she was born.
She wouldn’t give up the chance to reclaim her birthright; however, after remembering a tale her mother told her she sneaked into the catacombs beneath the palace and sought out the vampire imprisoned within.
Carmilla wasn’t a creature to be taken lightly, but Gabrielle was desperate. She hoped that with the vampire’s help she would be able to rescue those still loyal to her and escape. Then she would gather allies and return, stronger than before and ready to destroy the duke of Montague. Doing anything else would mean death.
The path to reclaiming her throne wouldn’t be easy and the princess will find that some things she believed certain might not be, and that the secrets her family hid ran deep.