A thrilling reinvention of the tale of The Scarlet Pimpernel with the addition of magic and even more mayhem. In Revolutionary France, the aristocrats are vampires – and they face the guillotine. However, the Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised British noble, is determined to rescue them. These predators are being offered sanctuary by their aristocratic British kin, but at great cost to London’s ordinary people. Then an English maid discovers the only power that could stop them. Assuming she survives. Scarlet is the first book in the trilogy, set during the turbulent French Revolution.