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, Dracula’s eternal muse, Mina Murray, vividly recounts
the intimate details of what really transpired between her and the
Count — the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked them
through the centuries, and her rebellion against her own frightening
preternatural powers.
Mina’s version of this gothic vampire tale is a visceral journey into Victorian England’s 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 Stoker’s 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 Mina’s 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.
