Night Pilgrims: A Saint-Germain Novel: 26 (St. Germain 26)

Chelsea Quinn Yarbros first Saint-Germain novel Hotel Transylvania was nominated as Vampire Novel of the Century. Her Saint-Germain cycle now comprised of more than twenty-five books is a masterwork of historical horror fiction. . The vampire Count Saint-Germain has crisscrossed the world many times seeking love and the blood of life and seeing humanity at its best and worst.. In Night Pilgrims Saint-Germain is living in a monastery in Egypt when he is hired to guide a group of pilgrims to underground churches in southern Egypt. The vampire finds a companion in a lovely widow who later fears that her dalliance with the Count will prevent her from reaching Heaven. . The pilgrims begin to fall prey to the trials of travel in the Holy Lands; some see visions and hear the word of God; others are seduced by desires for riches and power. A visit to the Chapel of the Holy Grail brings many quarrels to a head; Saint-Germain must use all his diplomacy and a good deal of his strength to keep the pilgrims from slaughtering one another.