Marie is a woman sold into a loveless marriage in a 1700's, second-world France. Under the close tutelage of the esteemed Lady Colette Valand, Marie has sewn a small corner of life for herself in their little town in the country-side. She even manages to find love and companionship in a secret affair with a prostitute, Alice. But Lady Colette has a few secrets of her own, and they all come to light on one fateful night, when their bodies and futures are forever changed by a mysterious tin of tea leaves. Dive back into the vampire lore first brought to you by "Beneath the Bloody Aurora" with this sapphic companion novella, and experience the turn that started it all.