First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page.
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first.
• Finally… reveal the book!

Hello & happy Friday! This weeks pick is a fantastical re-telling of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Filled with Aristocrats, Vampires and plenty of mayhem, this sounds like it’s going to be a unique read.

“You mean they don’t even wear no trousers?’ Sarah asked, shocked.”

Certainly an interesting first line! Ready to find out what it is?

In Revolutionary France, the aristocrats are vampires – and they face the guillotine. However, the Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised British noble, is determined to rescue them. These predators are being offered sanctuary by their aristocratic British kin, but at great cost to London’s ordinary people. Then an English maid discovers the only power that could stop them. Assuming she survives.