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If you love Jane Austen and you love vampires, this book brings the two of them together in an unexpected way.

Lorena Navarrois so excited to enroll in a brand new boarding school that’s just opened up in a formerly condemned Victorian home in the New Hampshire woods. She sees it as romantic–Lorena is a huge Jane Austen fan–and an opportunity to meet her own Mr. Darcy.

But instead of finding love immediately, Lorena stumbles upon a coffin. She’s now accidentally awakened the last vampire in the world. Whoops.

William Pride is glad to be awake after three centuries but he’s confused, to say the least. He wants to find his family and wants to understand the world around him; he’s relying heavily on Lorena for it. It only seems to make sense he enroll in this new school, too, as it could be his way to reintegrate into the world.

Things seem to be okay, right? Except William then discovers he’s the last of his kind that could help keep his kind alive. Now he’s got to choose between protecting and integrating with the humans at his school or working to save his legacy. That he’s wildly in love only makes the choice so much harder. —Kelly Jensen