It
is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health
fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain
of technological, scientific, and intellectual progress. For John
Kemp, a straight-forward, unimaginative London lawyer, life seems
reassuringly predictable yet forward-leaning, that is, until a foray
into the recently published sensationalist novel Dracula, united with
a chance meeting with an eccentric Dominican friar, catapults him
into a bizarre, violent, and unsettling series of events.
As
London is transfixed with terror at a bloody trail of murder and
destruction, Kemp finds himself in its midst, besieged on all
sides―in his friendships, as those close to him fall prey to
vicious assault by an unknown assassin; in his deep attraction to an
unconventional American heiress; and in his own professional
respectability, for who can trust a lawyer who sees things which, by
all sane reason, cannot exist? Can his mundane, sensible life―and
his skeptical mind―withstand vampires? Can this everyday Englishman
survive his encounter with perhaps an even more sinister threat―the
white-robed Papists who claim to be vampire slayers?
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