Gespenster Geschichten #79

In 1817 Czarist Russia, rivalry burns hot between the occult chemist Ivan and the fierce Cossack Dimitri, both vying for the heart of Alicia. When Dimitri kills Ivan after Alicia’s choice, the chemist’s final act of vengeance unfolds in a way neither man could have foreseen—beneath the frozen earth, in a forgotten crypt.

In the shadowed halls of a crumbling castle, Lady Cartes and her young son Reon are left vulnerable when Lord Louis Cartes falls defending their home. With the invading marauders gone but the threat of abandonment looming, the hired soldiers—now unpaid and desperate—turn their backs on the family they once swore to protect.