The Thirteenth Vampire

by Hemming, Alice, Bochenski, Kayt | Interest age: from c 10 years
Published 14/09/2023 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 400 pages
146 x 192 x 21mm | 466g

From Alice Hemming, the bestselling author of The Dark

Unicorn series, comes a brand-new story filled with vampires and

a mystery only one girl can solve.

The town of Valesti was once rumoured to be the home to a family

of twelve vampires who wreaked havoc on the towns people. Until,

that is, hunters came to kill them all. At least, they thought

they'd killed them all . . .

Years later, the rumours are mostly forgotten but some persist

- especially those around Castle Bezna , where a mysterious countess

lives. Over the years, the countess has enlisted village girls

to be her companions, but none of the girls have returned. But

when a girl named Vivi decides that the promise of an education

and boarding is too great an opportunity to turn down, she packs

up her belongings and starts work in the dusty old castle.

But soon Vivi starts to wonder if the legend of the thirteenth

vampire could be true. Can she prove the vampires existence, or

will she join the long list of girls never to return from Castle

Bezna . . . ?