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Putnam
June 2013
On Sale: June 13, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 0399158553
EAN: 9780399158551
Kindle: B00AR2RZ3Q
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When rare-manuscript expert Joseph Barkeley is hired to
authenticate and purchase the original draft and notes for
Bram Stoker's Dracula, little does he know that the
reclusive buyer is a member of the oldest family in
Transylvania. After delivering the manuscript to the
legendary Bran Castle in Romania, Barkeley—a Romanian
orphan himself—realizes to his horror that he's become a
prisoner to the son of Vlad Dracul. To earn his freedom,
Barkeley must decipher cryptic messages hidden in the text
of the original Dracula that reveal the burial sites of
certain Dracul family members. Barkeley's only hope is to
ensure that he does not exhaust his usefulness to his captor
until he’s able to escape. Soon he discovers secrets about
his own lineage that suggest his selection for the task was
more than coincidence. In this knowledge may lie Barkeley's
salvation—or his doom. For now he must choose between a
coward's flight and a mortal conflict against an ancient
foe. Building on actual international events surrounding the
publication of Bram Stoker's original novel, Royce Prouty
has written a spellbinding debut novel that ranges from
1890s Chicago, London, and Transylvania to the perilous present.
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