Diese Serie verbindet auf clevere Weise historische Fiktion mit moderner Fantasy und Humor und folgt einer beliebten Autorin, die zu einer untoten Buchhändlerin wird. Sie navigiert durch die Komplexität der Unsterblichkeit, das unerwartete moderne Leben ihrer literarischen Werke und eine dunkle Gestalt aus ihrer Vergangenheit. Es ist eine witzige und spannende Erzählung darüber, wie eine literarische Ikone mit einer übernatürlichen Existenz umgeht und gleichzeitig versucht, ihre wahre Identität zu verbergen. Die Geschichten bieten einen frischen, fesselnden Einblick in bleibendes Erbe und unerwartete Neuanfänge.
Jane Austen ist ein Vampir, der ihren Tod 1817 nur vorgetäuscht hat. In den USA lebt sie unerkannt und ist von ihrem Vampirdasein gelangweilt. Als Lord Byron, mit dem sie eine stürmische Affäre hatte, auftaucht, findet sich Jane plötzlich in einer ihrer eigenen Romanzen wieder.
After two hundred years undead, Jane Austen still has bite. But will her most recent literary success be her last? Life was a lot easier for Jane when she was just an unknown, undead bookstore owner in a sleepy hamlet in upstate New York. But now the world embraces her as Jane Fairfax, author of the bestselling novel Constance—and she’s having a killer time trying to keep her true identity as the Jane Austen a secret. Even the ongoing lessons in How to Be a Vampire, taught by her former lover Lord Byron, don’t seem to be helping much. Jane can barely focus on her boyfriend, Walter, while keeping him in the dark about her more sanguine tastes. To make matters worse, Walter announces that his mother is coming for a visit—and she’s expecting Jane to be Jewish. Add in a demanding new editor, a convention of romance readers in period costume, a Hollywood camera crew following Jane’s every move, and the constant threat of a certain bloodsucking Brontë sister coming back to finish her off, and it’s enough to make even the most well-mannered heroine go batty!
How will Jane Austen break the news to her fiancé that she’s not only undead, but also a two-hundred-plus-year-old literary icon? In sleepy upstate New York, Jane’s wedding preparations have taken on a bloodsucking intensity. So when Walter suggests they ditch it all and combine their marriage and honeymoon with a house tour of Europe, Jane jumps at the chance to flee Lord Byron and the lingering threat of Charlotte Brontë. But to Jane’s chagrin, more than one secret from her past is about to resurface. From an Agatha Christie–style murder mystery to a wedding interrupted by the ghosts of the Princes in the Tower to a shocking revelation about Walter’s mother, nothing about this trip is less than pure mayhem. And when a chance encounter puts Jane on the trail of a legendary device reputed to restore a vampire’s human soul, will our beloved heroine finally be able to vow her love and devotion—or will a vampire hunter’s vengeance drive a stake through her eternal life?