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Anastasia - Lysandra's Testament: Book 1 - Commencement
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Series: Anastasia - Lysandra's Testament, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 716
Weight: 2.07
Height: 1.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You have been lied to.
Vampires are not the creatures of superstition. They are not immortal monsters, nor elegant myths risen from graves. They are biological, vulnerable, hungry, and hidden inside the old structures of family, property, loyalty, and power.
In seventeenth-century England, Anastasia Rowan grows up under the protection of Harrow Hall: loved, educated, and watched over by people whose lives are far stranger than she understands.
When Cassius Blackthorn turns his attention towards Anastasia, a private act of violence changes the course of her life. Saved by Sebastian Harrow and the formidable Lysandra Frostad, she survives, but the life returned to her is no longer the one she knew.
Paris offers refuge, discipline, music, and the first true shape of freedom. There, Anastasia becomes a dancer, a woman, and part of a hidden world where blood is not merely appetite, but trust, restraint, and consequence.
Yet the past has not finished with her, and Cassius has not forgotten what he failed to possess.
Anastasia is a historical gothic drama of love, memory, art, and survival: a story of chosen family, dangerous restraint, and the lives remade by one impossible choice.
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