Beauty of Beast

Viktoria, a young and not particularly talented painter, comes across war vampires in the middle of war torn Croatia in 1992. She becomes obsessed with them but socializing with vampires is dangerous. One of them attacks her and infects her with what she believes is AIDS. To save herself she leaves with Damian, the oldest of the vampires, on an adventure that will prolong her life forever ... or end it.

Viktoria Faust Viktoria Faust is pen name for Croatian horror, SF, and children's/fantasy writer. Her first short story was published 1996 in literary magazine 'Plima'. Her first novel 'Beauty of The Beast', written in 1994, was first published in the year 2000. Since then, over the years, she won the title of Croatian Queen of horror novels. She won four Croatian SF and horror awards. She began to write as an experiment, when she was thirteen. She liked the experiment, so by now her name (as author or translator) is in more than fifty books. She was born in Pozega, Croatia and since 2003 lives in Samobor, Croatia.