Dracula in Love

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.From the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast Draculas eternal muse Mina Murray vividly recounts the intimate details of what really transpired between her and the Countthe joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked them through the centuries and her rebellion against her own frightening preternatural powers.Minas version of this gothic vampire tale is a visceral journey into Victorian Englands dimly lit bedrooms mist-filled cemeteries and asylum chambers revealing the dark secrets and mysteries locked within. 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. Bram Stokers classic novel offered one side of the story in which Mina had no past and bore no responsibility for the unfolding events. Now for the first time the truth of Minas personal voyage and of vampirism itself is revealed. 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.