Jane Austen Novelist . . . gentlewoman . . .Damned, Fanged, and Dangerous to know.Aspiring writer Jane Austen knows that respectable young ladies like herself are supposed to shun the Damnedthe beautiful, fashionable, exquisitely seductive vampires who are all the rage in Georgian England in 1797. So when an innocent (she believes) flirtation results in her being turnedby an absolute cad of a bloodsuckershe acquiesces to her familys wishes and departs for Bath to take the waters, the only known cure.But what she encounters there is completely unexpected: perilous jealousies and further betrayals, a new friendship and a possible love. Yet all that must be put aside when the warring French invade unsuspecting Bathand the streets run red with good English blood. Suddenly only the staunchly British Damned can defend the nation they love . . . with Jane Austen leading the charge at the battles forefront.