With Dracula in Love Karen Essex turns her inimitable, piercing gaze to illuminating what should be familiar terrain-Victorian England-and what might seem like well-trod territory-a certain Count. But its true revelation is its gripping sense of anticipation, heartache, discovery, and unflinching chill. Romantic novels should have their share of sex and romance, and this novel delivers both. Historical novels should have plenty of history, and this novel surely does. Gorgeously written and erotically charged, the novel Dracula in Love is like its century-jumping central characters: deeply rooted in the past while pushing ageless mythology into strikingly current realms. His latest book, The Council of Dads, tells the uplifting story of how friendship and community can help one survive life’s greatest challenges. He is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and America’s Prophet. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īruce Feiler is one of America’s most popular voices on faith and family. What this flesh and blood woman has to say is more sensual, more devious, and more enthralling than the Victorians could have expressed or perhaps even have imagined. Now, for the first time, the truth of Mina’s personal voyage, and of vampirism itself, is revealed. Time falls away as she is swept into a mythical journey far beyond mortal comprehension, where she must finally make the decision she has been avoiding for almost a millennium.īram Stoker’s classic novel offered one side of the story, in which Mina had no past and bore no responsibility for the unfolding events.

Mina’s version of this gothic vampire tale is a visceral journey into Victorian England’s dimly lit bedrooms, mist-filled cemeteries, and asylum chambers, revealing the dark secrets and mysteries locked within. In this wonderfully transporting novel, award-winning author Karen Essex turns a timeless classic inside out, spinning a haunting, erotic, and suspenseful story of eternal love and possession.įrom the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Dracula’s eternal muse, Mina Murray, vividly recounts the intimate details of what really transpired between her and the Count-the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked them through the centuries, and her rebellion against her own frightening preternatural powers.

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