Darkangel 1: The Darkangel - Meredith Ann Pierce

Aeriel is just a simple servant girl in a dark and dangerous world. She often feels clumsy, pale, stupid and ugly beside her young mistress, Eoduin. Yet it is for love of her mistress and sometimes friend that she climbs once more the mountain where the Darkangel stole Eoduin away. Determined to kill the vampire, she waits... only to be captured and put into a far more horrific servitude. Alone in an abandoned castle at the edge of a desert, Aeriel must brave the tauntings of the Darkangel as she waits upon his gruesom brides. So alike are the wraithlike, hideous beings that she cannot even tell which of them was once Eoduin. Soon the vampyre will take his ...  Read the complete review