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Berkley
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
Featuring: Joseph Barkeley
352 pages
ISBN: 0425269795
EAN: 9780425269794
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Horror | Paranormal Historical
From debut author Royce Prouty comes a spellbinding tale of history, folklore, destiny, and redemption. Joseph Barkeley has a gift. Without the aid of chemical testing, he can accurately determine the authenticity and age of any document, seeing details within the fibers the way a composer picks out the individual notes of a symphony. But rarely does Joseph get a job this delicate and well- paying. A mystery buyer has hired him to authenticate the original draft of Bram Stokerβs Dracula. When he travels to Transylvania to personally deliver the manuscript to the legendary Bran Castle, Barkeley, a Romanian orphan himself, soon realizes that his employer is the son of the infamous Vlad Dracula. Imprisoned in the castle and forced to serve βthe Master,β Barkeley must quickly decipher cryptic messages hidden within Stokerβs masterpiece to find the Masterβs long-lost brideβor risk wearing out his welcome. But as he delves into the history of Dracula and his own lineage, Barkeley discovers that his selection for this job was based on more than his talent with rare books. Now he has a perilous decision to makeβsave his life with a cowardβs flight or wage a deadly battle with an ancient foe.
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