Heart of Stone

<p>The year is 1764 and following a glowing recommendation from his last employer Henry Coffey vampire takes on a new personal secretary: young Theophilus Essex.<br><br>The man is quite unlike any secretary - or any man for that matter - that Henry has ever met.<br><br>---<br><br>'Heart of Stone' is a slowly unfolding period romance between a vampire and his inimitably devoted clerk: lushly depicted in flowing lovingly appended prose we follow the slow understanding these two men grasp of one another and the cross of their two worlds into each other's.<br><br>Craving resounding intimacy but with an ever aware of the polite boundaries for their situation Coffey and Essex perform a slow dance as they grow closer to one another and find themselves entangled.</p>