Cursed

Cursed By Dakota Trace  (PDF)

Fresh from fighting in the Patriotic War of 1812, Grigori Chernikova – the younger half brother to Baron Pahlen, wants nothing more than to spend several nights in the arms of willing woman to forget it all. On his way to St. Petersburg he crosses paths with the sultry Brigita.  After a night of unbelievable sex, he awakes to find himself bound to her bed as her slave. When he refuses, she grows angry and curses him after bleeding him until he’s on the verge of death.

When he finally recovers weeks later, he realizes he’s not the same man he once was. He now has an aversion to light, likes his steaks bloody rare, has an insatiable sex drive and he’s ceased to age. As the years passed he’s become a recluse who only leaves his manor when his needs finally drive him to take another mistress who usually runs as soon as she realizes what he is. It’s on one of these infrequent trips that he runs across a young English artist, Peony. Even as he clamors for both her blood and her body can she be the one to break the curse on him or will she flee like all the others?