Lucy Westenra Trilogy
Book One: Neither Hyde nor Hair
My name is Lucy Westenra. And I hunt monsters.
You might remember me—I was one of the first unfortunates turned by Dracula.
Well, the count might think he turned me, but I was saved by witch magic. Owing to an elixir created by high witch, Lissa Ravenwood, I’m mostly human. As long as I take the elixir every three days.
But the vampire within me is always there in the background, threatening to turn me into a creature I detest. The count, Vlad, wants exactly that—for me to succumb to my darker side and return to him. He considers me his fledgling, his love, his creation.
I consider him a royal pain in my backside.
Regardless, I still need Vlad. Well, I need his help on a particularly difficult case…
Because I’m in control of my vampire side, and I’m stronger and faster than your average human, I work as a bounty hunter, specializing in apprehending things that go bump in the night. I guess it takes a monster to catch a monster.
And the case I’m on now is giving me apoplexy…
Students at Lissa’s witch academy are falling ill—clearly under the effects of Hyde, an illegal street drug. When another young woman’s mutilated body is found in an alley, I realize we’ve got a murderer on the loose. And I have a feeling the two cases are tied… I’m just not sure how or why.
As if that isn’t stress-inducing enough, the vampire council is in town, and that means I need Vlad’s protection. What I don’t need is his constant amorous attempts…
Sigh. It’s just another day in the unlife of Lucy Westenra, a girl who hunts monsters and hasn’t had a date in over a decade...
So, that saying that goes: ‘when it rains, it pours’… yeah, it’s pretty much spot on. Not that I ever really had good luck, but I’m not sure how much worse my luck could get…
For the first time in a really looooong time, I’ve got a boyfriend—Dr. Henry Jekyll. And he’s everything you’d want a boyfriend to be—charming, sweet, loyal. Only problem is, I can’t be left alone with him.
Yeah, you heard that right. Ever since I agreed to becoming a full-time employee of the Holmwood Association (that apprehends monsters), I’m being kept under lock and key. If I’m allowed outside the compound, it has to be with a chaperone—all owing to the fact that I’m half-vampire.
But here’s the part where my luck takes a serious plunge… while on a date with Henry (and Simone—our chaperone), I notice a shadow lurking just outside the opera house. Thinking it’s none other than the bane of my existence—Dracula, himself—I follow it. And I nearly get killed by a collapsing parapet of bricks.
That’s when I realize this isn’t the work of Dracula, because Vlad would never kill me—not when he wants me to return to him forever (ahem, over my undead body).
Meanwhile, numerous people around Sacramento are spontaneously combusting and the finger seems to be pointing at Morfran—a demon who grants favors. Yet, when I start to investigate, I realize Morfran is involved, yes, but only in so much as he’s being targeted. Also targeted are all his clients who bear his mark… and guess who’s included in that esteemed crowd?
Yep, you guessed it.
Now, I’ve got to hurry up and figure out whodunit before I become another spontaneously combusting victim.
Le sigh.
Book Two: Gallant Ghosts and Ghastly Gentlemen
Book Three: Beauty And The Barbarous Barber
When I find Henry, aka Dr. Jekyll, covered in blood and barely coherent, I’m a nervous mess.
Of further interest is the fact that Henry’s counterpart, Mr. Hyde, has been ripped from him.
After rushing Henry to the hospital and with no information as to what happened to him, I get the only person involved who can help: Holmes and Watson.
After learning there have been a chain of murders in Sacramento, I also learn one of the most feared villains is loose: Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street. And he’s got a special knife that can separate souls from bodies.
It quickly becomes a rush to outthink and outsmart Sweeney Todd as we try to understand what he wants and why he’s here and why… he attacked Dr. Jekyll, ripping away from him Mr. Hyde.
And, as if that weren’t enough to deal with, I’m also coming face to face with none other than the man who created me, Dracula.
Find out what happens in the final installment of the Lucy Westenra Trilogy!