Sarah Brackett

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.

The year is 1928 and Emily, aged seventeen, returns home from school in Switzerland. At her family estate in the English countryside, it seems everyone is trying to seduce her.