

Alexia’s Appearanceĭaughter to a strong Italian father, Alessandro Tarabotti, Alexia is described as having olive skin dark, curly hair and dark eyes in addition to being tall, plus-sized and well endowed. Living in an alternate universe, in historical England where vampires and werewolves not only exist, but are known and accepted members of society, Tarabotti stars as a soulless woman, or a preternatural (the only one in Great Britain), who finds herself under the heated lights of a murder investigation after accidentally killing a vampire.ĭespite her commission of the original murder, Tarabotti maintains innocence of a piling stack of high society murders plaguing Victorian England, but as she is a spinster with a deceased father and a disapproving mother, she is left to prove for herself that she is innocent. Her first novel was entitled Soulless and begins a saga based on the life of her sole protagonist, Alexia Tarabotti.

In 2009, Gail Carriger released the first of a series of novels known as The Parasol Protectorate.
