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New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh comes back with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series occur 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in simple sight.

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled from the useless. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is normally a secure haven after she’s forced to flee her existence like a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in from the sisters from the Ursuline convent in the middle of the carnival season, Celine is certainly about THE STUNNING quickly enraptured by the lively town, from its music to its elegant soirées and even its risk. She turns into embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, referred to as La Cour des Lions, after getting the eye of the group’s enigmatic head, Sébastien Saint Germain.

When the body of one of girls from the convent is found in Sébastien’s own lair–the second dead girl to turn up in recent weeks–Celine battles her attraction to Sébastien and suspicions about his guilt along with the shame of her own horrible key.

After another murder, New Orleans becomes gripped from the terror of a serial killer within the loose–one who has now set Celine in his sights. As the murderer stalks her, Celine finally requires matters into her own hands, only to find herself caught in the midst of an age-old feud between your darkest animals of the night time, where the price of forbidden love is her life.

Simultaneously a sultry romance and a decadent, thrilling mystery, expert storyteller Renée Ahdieh embarks on her behalf most potent dream series yet.