You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Her bark is worse than her bite.

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.