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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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Paranormal Historical | Horror
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 Stoker’s 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 “the Master,” Barkeley must
quickly decipher cryptic messages hidden within Stoker’s
masterpiece to find the Master’s long-lost bride—or 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 make—save his life with a
coward’s flight or wage a deadly battle with an ancient foe.
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