In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circewith a touch of Draculaa propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat known as the Blood Countess, who was rumored to have murdered hundreds of peasant girls and bathed in their blood.
When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she's setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up.