Curse of a Lady Vampire: (The Final Story… The Curse Ends)

By Jo Ann Atcheson Gray

About the Book
Annania was once living an ordinary human life as a Southern belle in the 1800s, until the arrival of the mysterious and alluring Frederic. Seduced by his charms, Annania becomes wrapped into a never-ending life of blood and death, never to see the sunrise again. With her best friend Sophia, she sets forth to live her immortal life in Paris. But as the reality sets in for what is to come when Sophia’s mortal life ends, Annania disregards Fredric’s warnings and turns Sophia into a vampire as well.
With Sophia’s changing, the women soon discover the curse placed upon her. A curse Annania unknowingly transferred to her. Sophia must now find and mate and birth a baby girl. Upon the girl’s seventeenth birthday, she must choose to become a vampire . . . or all vampires before her shall cease to exist.
Jo Ann Atcheson Gray’s thrilling Curse of the Lady Vampire series now holds Annania and Sophia’s versions into one thrilling and seductive novel.
About the Author
Jo Ann Atcheson Gray always fantasized about vampires. She loves to write and enjoys a good vampire story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
• Release date: Oct 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9798887298665

Book preview

It Begins

I want to begin my story now….

This is not a story for the faint of heart. It’s definitely not romantic. Love was what Annania wrote about. She was always the dreamy one out of the two of us.

I’m Sophia, an immortal. A vampire. Made by my best friend, my sister, my eternal companion, Annania. We still reside in Paris at our estate, as I mentioned earlier. Our beautiful Victorian mansion, vast in greenery and roses, is still a beautiful sight to see. Our overseer is still Angela. She stays to herself and handles our financial affairs and such, so long as she is paid well. Trying to live a quiet, peaceful existence, yet at times we must take a human life, the blood of a human. Annania and I have been side by side since childhood. Never parting from each other, and now we even share a coffin as we sleep through the sunlight hours, sharing this same slumber chamber for centuries. Nearly always hunting together when it’s time to feed, time to drain a mortal of their blood to satisfy our selfish desires of surviving.

My last encounter with Samuel, the Man, was some months back when I awoke to a noise. It wasn’t quite daybreak. Following the sound of a male voice, I came upon Annania’s writing room. She was standing at the doorway, holding a dozen black roses with a card or note in her hand. She looked affright. Standing in front of her was Samuel. I panicked and ran toward them. He grasped me swiftly by my neck, stopping me in my tracks. Frozen in fear as Annania stood speechless. I had no choice; he was going to kill us. I screamed out, Lucille!

He dropped me to the floor as he looked at me in a rage.

What did you just say? Samuel said in a faint whisper.

Swallowing hard, I repeated myself, Lucille. She was your mother?

Shaking his head in a disbelief he said, My mother was killed by Frederic, I told you both about this in the rose garden.

Before I could respond, he instantly disappeared, as I stumbled back a few steps when he released my throat from his grasp.

Regaining my composure, I took Annania by the hand as we seated ourselves on the cozy sofa near her desk.

Who is Lucille? Annania blankly questioned. I thought that was our end just now?

Staring at me with a concerned look, So this is what you were keeping from me all this time? she said. You knew about what this person was to Samuel?

Yes, Annania. I was waiting for the right time to tell you about this Lucille woman. I was confused as how to tell you about her. It just slipped out when I thought ‘the Man’ was going to kill us just now, I responded, feeling defeated.

I went on telling her of the encounter I had with Lucille and the words she spoke to me about Frederic.

Lucille told me about Frederic trying to kill her in a glass coffin of some kind and took her boy child away from her. It was a horrific thing to hear. She spoke of how she was his first female vampire to be made, and her son was a monster. It was quite the shock to me to hear this about Frederic. It saddens me how Samuel is making himself believe a lie about his parents, ’cause obviously the truth is too painful for him to deal with.

I strangely feel sorrow for ‘the Man,’ but I just cannot believe Frederic could be that cruel, that evil. I refuse to believe these sayings you speak of, Annania pleaded.

Well, believe it or not, but I think it holds some kind of truth behind it, I stated rather boldly.

Enough on this nonsense for now. My love, my darling Frederic, will be here soon, and I do not want all this on my mind. It’s been some time since I held my Frederic in my arms. No more talk on the matter.

Sure, if that’s what you want. I will not mention it again. I’m sorry, Annania, I whispered as I headed out the door.

Exactly what I figured she would say. I knew she wouldn’t want to believe this of Frederic. I have got to find this Lucille again and know more about what happened with her and Frederic, with Samuel. I must