Neferet's Curse

The third House of Night novella, set in Chicago in 1893 as the World's Fair fills the city. Sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be enjoying her first season, but her mother's death has left her mistress of Wheiler House and answerable to her father, a powerful bank president whose attentions grow more frightening by the day.

Afraid for her life and with nowhere left to turn, Emily is Marked by a vampyre and brought to the Chicago House of Night, where a magickal new life offers the chance to heal what her old one did to her.