About the Book
The third novel in Jasper Kent's enthralling, chilling and acclaimed historical vampire sequence – The Danilov Quintet.
Russia 1855. After forty years of peace in Europe, war rages. In the Crimea,
the city of Sevastopol is besieged. In the north, Saint Petersburg is
blockaded. But in Moscow there is one who needs only to sit and wait –
wait for the death of an aging tsar, and for the curse upon his blood to be passed to a new generation.
As their country grows weaker, a
brother and sister – each unaware of the other's existence – must come to terms with the legacy left them by their father. In Moscow, Tamara
Valentinovna Lavrova uncovers a brutal murder and discovers that it is
not the first in a sequence of similar crimes, merely the latest,
carried out by a killer who has stalked the city since 1812.
And
in Sevastopol, Dmitry Alekseevich Danilov faces not only the guns of the combined armies of Britain and France, but must also make a stand
against creatures that his father had thought buried beneath the earth,
thirty years before.
