The Back Cover of Bryony

If you are like me, when a book interests you, you flip to the inside or back cover to read what it's about. Since you are reading the blog, Bryony has interested you and here is that back cover you'll flip to!

"What shall I do first?" Melissa whispered.

John reached out his hands. "Touch me," he said in a low, smooth voice.

She hesitated. Even in the dim light, Melissa saw how thin and pale they were. Her insides recoiled at the thought of touching a corpse. Then Melissa remembered how much she wanted to be Bryony. This was nothing new; John had already siphoned blood from her: Could it harm her to continue for a little longer?

"I'm not afraid," she told herself, but she did not believe it. "I am not afraid. I am not afraid."

After her father’s sudden death, seventeen-year-old Melissa Marchellis
moves onto the former estate of nineteenth century composer and pianist
John Simons, where a mysterious mist stalks her, ghostly piano music invades her bedroom, and lovely visions of John Simons’ young wife Bryony,
who died in childbirth, fill her dreams.

So, when John proposes a trade, a trip to the past as Bryony in exchange
for her blood, Melissa happily agrees. She soon seesaws between a life of
school, slumber parties, and cute boys to dancing at balls, attending formal dinner parties, and hosting garden fetes.

But fantasy and reality blur when her eccentric, middle-aged English
teacher penetrates her dreams as Melissa’s dashing vampire chaperone; her
brother Brian adopts a peculiar stray cat after a friend disappears in a midnight exploration of the dilapidated mansion; and another girl with a similar vampire pact is gruesomely murdered.

Caught between the danger of her agreement and her escalating infatuation
with John Simons, Melissa contends with other vampires and their agendas,
while struggling with her feelings for an undead musician.