Lady Annabelle Simpson Jones

Born in 1867, the oldest child of Lord and Lady Simpson Jones, Annabelle has three younger brothers, Whistan, Sigmond and Tremaine, whom she helped raise after her mother died from malaria in Tanganyika.

When she was fifteen, Annabelle uncovered an occultist plot at her school, Esmerelda Winstanley’s Academy for Privileged Girls, and was forced to run away after burning down the school chapel after rescuing a fellow student from a sacrificial altar.  Her father sent his coachman, Bert Lavender, to retrieve Annabelle from Europe, but when he caught up to her she was embroiled in a crazy voodoo escapade, from which the pair of them only just escaped.  By the time they got back to England, Lord Simpson Jones was on his death-bed, having been poisoned by the vengeful voodoo master from Paris, Baron Vendredi, who then disappeared. 

After her father’s death, Annabelle decided to go and live in fashionable London, taking Bert Lavender with her as a live-in servant, but her frequent globe-trotting jaunts, motivated by the secret desire to find and bring to justice her father’s killer, have attracted much eyebrow-raising from London society. 

In 1891, the 24-year-old Annabelle was instrumental in defeating the wicked vampire Count Orloff in Ireland, and rumours persist among the occult community that she was bitten by the Count and became his mistress.  There are many who still believe her to be their dormant messiah, and eagerly await her unmasking as the Princess of Darkness.

After the Orloff affair, Annabelle decided to give up adventuring, but Bert, seeing that she was withering away in polite society, realised she needed to get back out there and jumped at the chance to introduce her to his chum Archie Cunningham, who took Annabelle on a trip to Egypt where she fell in love with Col Sir Henry Templeton Smyth, to whom she is now engaged.

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