Blood Moon by Rosaline Saul is a Gothic young adult novel.

Set in Victorian London, the narrative begins with a brutal encounter between a mysterious gentleman and a girl in an alleyway, establishing an atmosphere of supernatural menace.

The story follows Maggie Abbott, a young tutor who is dismissed from her previous post and becomes entangled with the enigmatic Count Joseph Burke.

After a chance meeting with the Count’s ward, Beatrice, Maggie is arrested but later released when Joseph offers her a position as a companion in his opulent yet eerie manor.

The plot highlights Maggie's growing suspicion of Joseph’s obsessive alchemical experiments regarding mortality and his possessive nature toward his household.

Tensions rise as Maggie attempts to protect the desperate Beatrice from a forced marriage while struggling with her own dangerous attraction to the Count.

Within the manor's walls, the characters navigate a web of secrets, social ambition, and the macabre, all set against the backdrop of a city haunted by a series of grim murders.