Parasol protectorate

Queen Victoria dismisses Lady Maccon from the Shadow Council, Lord Akeldama unexpectedly leaves town, and when Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating that all of London's vampires want her dead, she flees to Italy in search of the mysterious Templars.

Alexia Tarabotti, a woman without a soul who is viewed as unable to marry, works with werewolf Lord Conall Maccon to clear her name after she accidently kills a vampire and is suspected of the disappearances of other undead members of high society.

Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Macon, is summoned away from domestic bliss with her young child and husband to Egypt for an audience with the Queen of the Vampires in Alexandria, Egypt, where she is tasked with solving the problem of the God-Breaker plague.

Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless and eight months pregnant, is tasked with solving another mystery when a ghost threatens the life of the queen, but clues force her to delve into her own husband's past and a plague of zombie porcupines further exacerbate the situation.

Alexia Tarabotti, having married werewolf alpha Connall Maccon, Earl of Woolsey, awakens to find him yelling at the top of his lungs, and then he disappears. Her investigations take her to Scotland where she learns about her wayward husband's past.

Alexia Tarabotti, a woman without a soul who is viewed as unable to marry, works with werewolf Lord Conall Maccon to clear her name after she accidently kills a vampire and is suspected of the disappearances of other undead members of high society.