Lenobia's Vow

The second House of Night novella, and the origin story of the school's enigmatic riding instructor. Lenobia is fifteen when she boards a ship bound for New Orleans among girls promised to the city's wealthiest Frenchmen — travelling in the company of a bishop skilled in Dark magic, whose appetite for young women makes him dangerous. Hiding from him below decks among the Percheron horses, she meets Martin, a Creole horse hand, and discovers the love that will shape the vow she carries for the rest of her long life.