A thrilling and seductive sapphic romance about lust and ambition set in the nineteenth century. A repressed Victorian woman comes to delight in her own hungers when she and her husband take in a mysterious woman named Carmilla,who seems to most fully come to life at night. Ten years into their marriageLenore’s relationship with her husband Henry has souredand no child has arrived to fill the distance between them. Lenore’s frustration grows when Henry’s ambitionsboth work and societaltake them out of London and into the countrysideto the imposing Nethershaw manorwhere he is planning to host a hunt. Lenore keeps a terrible secret from the last time her husband huntedand though they never speak of itit haunts their marriage to this day. A carriage accident near their home soon brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore’s life. Carmillawho is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who will not eat meals with the family; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Torn between regaining her husband’s affection and the desire Carmilla’s presence awakens in herLenore begins to unravel her past. Her search leads her to uncover a darkness in her household that’s set on destroying her. Hungerstone is a mesmerizing reclamation of the lesbian vampire tropeset against the backdrop of the voracious appetite of the Industrial Revolution.