Lois Edmonds

As a thoroughly modern teenager, moving to Transylvania is a real culture shock. Flaxen-haired Elena finds it is not tales of vampires she needs to be afraid of, but the legend that has persisted for centuries of a dark raven that snatches fair maids from their villages, never to be seen again.

Aron is the last in a long line of cursed sons of the Hunyadi dynasty, living in a secret castle in the mountains where his ancestors retreated to seven hundred years ago, when the terrible curse was placed upon them. So far he has resisted the curse, but a chance encounter with the beautiful, fair Elena sets him on the path of destruction.