The Vampire Scrolls - Book 1: The Chosen One

Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Báthory is the envy of her times: smart, beautiful, wealthy and about to marry a handsome and powerful noble. She is also one of the last generations of vampires blessed with immortality. However, she must struggle with the mantle of an age old prophecy that names her as the one to end the existence of all vampires and lycans alike. She must decide whether to fight for her own life and doom her kind or kneel down to the prophecy and accept her fate. Historical fact intertwined with supernatural fiction, The Vampire Scrolls – Book 1: The Chosen One is threaded with a patchwork of love, forbidden desires, treachery, loyalty and betrayal.

The Vampire Scrolls – Book 1: The Chosen One is the first instalment in a brand new series of 5 books by Australian author Greg Burke. Released at San Diego Comic Convention 2014 to great reviews, the first book is an enthralling journey of historical fact woven with fiction. The series is based on Elizabeth Báthory and blends historical fact with myth, fantasy and religious motifs to create an exciting and easily relatable story. Elizabeth lived in 16th Century Hungary and was the most powerful woman in Europe at the time. She also has the infamous honour of being awarded the Guinness Book of Records’ most prolific female serial killer of all time, with over 600 young female virgins accredited to her bloodlust. The novel accounts and follows the stages of Elizabeth’s life and times with the fabric of fiction woven around those facts. Her struggle to find her place in the world as a supernatural being with true vampire blood, whilst accepting a destiny not to her liking, is the nucleus of the story in the first book. It traces the quest of those sworn to stop her and her kind, and others whose sinister interests are vested in her success. The novel reveals how the vampires and lycans secretly rule the human royals in the twilight of their power and treat their kingdoms as a game of thrones to see which coven can rule the most human livestock.