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Little, Brown
June 2005
656 pages
ISBN: 0316011770
Hardcover
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In this riveting debut of breathtaking scope, a young girl
discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a
harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he
never could -- to find history's most legendary fiend:
Dracula. When a motherless American girl living in Europe
finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all
addressed ominously to "My dear and unfortunate
successor..." she begins to unravel a thread that leads
back to her father's past, his mentor's career, and an evil
hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet
moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover
is her birthright: a hunt that nearly brought her father to
ruin and may have claimed the life of his adviser and dear
friend, history professor Bartholomew Rossi. What does the
legend of Vlad the Impaler, the historical Dracula, have to
do with the 20th century? Is it possible that Dracula has
lived on in the modern world? And why have a select few
historians risked reputation, sanity, and even their lives
to learn the answer? So begins an epic journey to unlock
the secrets of the strange medieval book, an adventure that
will carry our heroine across Europe and into the past --
not only to the times of Vlad's heinous reign, but to the
days when her mother was alive and her father was still a
vibrant young scholar. In the end, she uncovers the
startling fate of Rossi, and comes face to face with the
definition of evil--to find, ultimately, that good may not
always triumph.
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