A Portrait in Ash and Lace

Clutching her few belongings Gisella is shipped to strange shores to meet an unknown husband. Sebastian. Sold and abandoned by her father into a nunnery, Gisella sails to the shores of New Orleans. A gentleman husband of her own and an uncertain future. Passengers whisper that the filles a la cassette are vampyre. But while the girls laugh at such silly superstition, they disguise their own fears that they are to be brides of such a monstrosity...