Publisher's Synopsis
She went against the norm for her time to go to nursing school. She didn't follow the rules. Now can she be a vampire and a nurse?If you like history, nursing and a touch of the paranormal you will love this first book in a brand-new series.As Eveline learned to be a nurse, she began to recognize her independent nature. She leaves her family, studies hard to learn her profession, then war breaks out. She volunteers to serve in Crimea. During the war she strives to become an expert nurse. She learns much about caring for soldiers and working with the surgeons and doctors in the military while learning more about nursing. Not one to follow the rules she ends up with an encounter with the vampire. She is left without knowing what has happened until a lady from the nearby village visits and helps care for her. Eveline is to learn about the witch, and she becomes Eveline's teacher into the life of vampirism. Eveline has so much to learn and how to still be a nurse is at the top of her list.Now she must learn new skills. Will she have to leave humanity or be able to adapt and continue as a nurse? The history of nursing is an incredible story and Eveline is honored to tell how the profession of nursing has grown since the days of Florence Nightingale. Telling the 160 + years of nursing through her eyes became possible after her encounter with a vampire. Although a paranormal fiction this first book introduces Eveline's life in Victorian era England and her path into nursing education and then with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Nursing is being told as accurately to the history as possible.Follow Eveline in this first of The Nurse and The Vampire series. The Nurse and The Vampyre; The Beginnings takes the reader into the world of nursing during the Victorian era and with vampirism will allow Eveline to teach the full history of the profession of nursing.
