Purity

by J.P. Marshman

Caitlyn is a bright, headstrong girl with a twisted past she unconsciously smothers into lost memories. When she is only eleven, she is kidnapped by her father’s business rival in hopes of giving up much-needed information. Refusing to talk – and knowing nothing of use – she is placed in the Silver Room, a desperate man’s sinister torture chamber, where she meets the monsters who inhabit her nightmares. A lifetime later, on an innocent summer vacation to her paternal relatives in Romania’s notorious province Transylvania, these memories return in a flood when she meets strangers with an aversion to sunlight and bloodstained smiles. As prisoner to a condemned prince, Caitlyn becomes privy to an underground world where myth and nightmare are all too real, and where at every turn, a new threat emerges. With dogs waging war and men bent on bloodshed, Caitlyn must team up with the unlikeliest of people to save what is theirs, while standing on the precipice of destruction.

547 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 17, 2014

About the author

JP Marshman has been writing stories as long as she can remember, and such a little hobby has grown into a fervent passion. She primarily writes adventure and high fantasy, and dabbles in science fiction. She currently lives in the Okanagan Valley in beautiful British Columbia, where she ignores the crystal blue lakes and golden sunshine to instead stay indoors and grow paler so she can churn out fables with the heroes in her head. She also enjoys the company of video games, bad jokes, and cats.

Oh, and the J stands for Jessica. You have to earn the right to know what the P means.