


After the marriage, she calms and becomes determined to keep her husband from exercising his "conjugal rights". She is taken by him, and believes that they will one day marry. At this time, Amara meets the handsome and loving Count George Drugeth. As her marriage to Count Nádasdy approaches, Elizabeth becomes increasingly erratic and destructive. She falls in love with a landowner's son and bears him a daughter that is taken away. Elizabeth is engaged to marry Count Nádasdy, but is head strong. She will write his family history and deliver it when he marries the woman he loves, not the woman his family wants him to marry.Amara begins to write her memoirs, starting with her losing her mother and becoming a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth Bathory. In order to keep John from making the same mistake as his grandfather, Amara strikes a deal with the dashing count. John Drugeth, the spitting image of his grandfather, shows up and wants to know his family history. One day, Amara receives an odd visitor, a ghost from her past. She waits, mostly alone, save the ghosts that haunt her. Amara Borbala is reaching the end of her days.
