The Court of Miracles
A fearless young heroine ventures into a Parisian underworld court of conspiring vampires in this sweeping alternate history.
The vampire King Louis XIV reigns supreme over a terrorized France, determined to protect his empire at any cost. When a mysterious renegade vampire named the Lady of Miracles ascends to power in an underworld Parisian court and claims the city for herself, Louis feels threatened for the first time in centuries.
His secret weapon to fight back? Mademoiselle Diane de Gastefriche, a young baronette who earned the king’s trust through her own cunning and wit. He sends Diane to squash the new threat to his power. But King Louis has no idea that this feisty girl’s real name is Jeanne Froidelac: she is an infiltrated commoner, whose secret mission is to destroy him and rid the world of the vampiric tyranny.
Caught between a vengeful king and a ruthless rival, Jeanne embarks on a quest that could alter the kingdom’s destiny—and expose a powerful secret that she will do anything to protect.
Victor Dixen
Victor Dixen writes at the meeting point of imagined futures and reinvented pasts. Across science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history, his novels have sent teenagers toward Mars, transformed familiar fairy tales, confronted the possibilities of artificial intelligence, and rebuilt the court of Louis XIV as a vampire-ruled empire.
Born to a French mother and Danish father, Dixen grew up with travel as a regular part of life. That international outlook continued into adulthood. He has lived in places including Paris, Denver, Dublin, Singapore, New York, and Washington, D.C., gathering landscapes and cultures that would later feed into his fiction. Another influence has been more constant: insomnia. A lifelong light sleeper, Dixen has described his sleepless nights not simply as a problem, but as companions and sources of imagination.
Vampyria Saga
In the world of Vampyria, the Sun King never died. In 1715, Louis XIV chose immortality instead, transforming himself into a vampire and condemning Europe to an eternal age of darkness. Three centuries later, Versailles still glitters, the aristocracy still rules, and ordinary mortals pay a blood tax to sustain the undead elite.
Vampyria Saga consists of two books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
