Not all family heirlooms are keepsakes. Some are downright evil.

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Fourteen year-old Anna Báthory recently moved to Boulder Colorado with her family to escape a dark secret – one they unknowingly packed with them across the country.

For centuries, and passed down through the generations, evil has festered in the veins of Báthory women. In this modern re-telling of the legend of Hungarian Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory, Anna must choose: give into her true nature and become a murderess, or resist, and allow the darkness to swallow her frail teenage body whole.

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