Long Time Dead

<p><strong>Samara Breger's <em>A Long Time Dead</em> is a lush Victorian romance drenched in blood and drama about the lengths two women will go to secure a love that cannot die. </strong></p><br><p>Somewhere foggy 1837 . . .</p><br><p>Poppy had always loved the night which is why it wasn't too much of a bother to wake one evening in an unfamiliar home far from London weak and confused and plagued with a terrible thirst for blood to learn that she could no longer step out into the day. And while vampirism presented several disadvantages it more than made up for those in its benefits: immortality a body that could run at speed for hours without tiring the thrill of becoming a predator the thing that pulls rabbits from bushes and tears through their fur and flesh with the sharp point of a white fang.</p><br><p>And of course Roisin. The mysterious woman who has lived for centuries who held Poppy through her painful transformation and who for some reason is now teaching her how to adjust to her new endless life. A tight lonely buttoned-up woman with kindness and care pressed up behind her teeth. The time they spend together is as transformative to Poppy as the changes in her body and soon she finds herself hopelessly overwhelmingly attached. But Roisin has secrets of her own and can't make any promises; not when vengeance must be served.</p><br><p>Soon their little world explodes. Together and apart they encounter scores of vampires shifty pirates conniving opera singers ancient nobles glamorous French women and a found family that throws a very particular sort of party. But overhead threat looms--one woman who is capable of destroying everything Poppy and Roisin hold dear. </p>