Desire Urges Me On As Fear Bridles

Memories Were Short And History Unkind. It Was The Way Of The World.

The Plain Truth Is That The Period I Study Is The 16th Century, And They Were Absolutely Obsessed With Witches And Spiritual Beings.

Within Days They'd Formed An Unholy Alliance With A Foppish Young French Vampire In The Garden District Who Had Implausibly Golden Hair And A Streak Of Ruthlessness As Wide As The Mississippi

We Kissed Each Other, Long And Deep, While My Legs Opened Like The Covers Of A Book.

I Wanted To Know How Humans Came Up With A View Of The World That Had So Little Magic In It. I Needed To Understand How They Convinced Themselves That Magic Wasn’t Important.