In this terrifying, brilliantly imagine novel, Jeanne Kalogridis returns the same dark, sensual territory she visited in Covenant with the Vampire . Once again she explores the breathtaking battle waged in the hart of the Family Dracul—as the innocent take up arms against the monster.

In the flickering gaslights of Vienna a brother watches—as a woman of alabaster beauty, his sister of him, takes two lovers at once. Then she pours her passion into the most forbidden act of all. . .

In the streets of Amsterdam a young man, the secret lover of his brother's wife, is whisked into a waiting carriage for a long journey into darkness and reunion with his father. . .

They are a family bound my an ancient curse, one generation pitted against another, taboos shattered, their firstborn's blood sipped from a silver chalice. In his stony fortress he waits Vlad the Impaler, while his heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons: “ Let the curse end with me! ”

“Jeanne Kalogridis has launched a vampire hero who will haunt my nights for decades—or lifetimes—to come.”—Jacqueline Lichtenber, author of Those of My Blood