Castle Return: Mom Rises to Vampire Queen

Synopsis

"The Lord of Eternal Night's Bride" Martha was a maid in the royal vampire house of Eternal Night. Tradition decreed that when a maid turned thirty, she could take her allowance and leave the castle. On the night before her departure, Lord William pulled her into his chambers. She thought he was just an ordinary knight of the house—fearing the castle's laws, she fled before dawn. But Lord William was consumed by the woman of that night, searching for her obsessively for five long years. Years later, Martha gave birth to William's child. Unwed and shamed, she was branded a whore by her village, scorned and spat upon. By chance, she returned to the castle—with her child. What awaited her was far crueler than the village. Relatives schemed, servants lied, and she was nearly hanged again and again. Every hand reached for her throat. Every voice cried for her death. None of them knew that the woman they condemned was the one their lord had been hunting for five years. Then William's eyes met hers. He recognized her. And everything changed. ——She fled one night. He searched for five years. And when the noose tightened around her neck, the most powerful man in the castle stood between her and death.