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When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh obtains an offer of collaboration from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something's amiss. But when he complies with the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he's certain. For York doesn't service that the icy winter of 1857 has destroyed all but one of Marsh's dilapidated fleet. Nor does he service that he won't earn again his investment in ten years. York has his own reasons for attempting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they're to be none of them of Marsh's concern - no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his activities may prove. Marsh meant to turn down York's offer. It was too filled with secrets that spelled risk. But the offer of both gold and a grand new fishing boat that could make history smashed his handle - coupled with the terrible pressure of York's mesmerizing gaze. Not before maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Fantasy would Marsh realize he had joined a quest both more sinister, as well as perhaps more commendable, than his most fantastic problem...and mankind's most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of the vampire's mission to unite his contest with humanity, of the garrulous riverman's imagine immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat age and a majestic, traditional river.
