England's "vampire craze" is causing much vexation for Ian Ashton, the Lord Vampire of London.

The whole of the haute ton is reading sensational books. Between Dr. John Polidori's "The Vampyre" and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, every duke, duchess, and earl is obsessed with killers in our midst. I'm the Lord Vampire of London, and everywhere I go, I'm treated with suspicion, as if people are doomed by my touch. To quell gossip,

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Mistaking a beautiful young widow as a vampire hunter, Rafael Villar, Lord Vampire of London, takes Cassandra Burton, who robs graves to secretly pursue a forbidden career in medicine, prisoner, and finds himself captivated by this curious woman who makes him her most desirable experiment. Original.