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Late one night, exploring her father's collection, a young female finds a historical reserve and a cache of yellowing words. The letters are tackled to "My dear and unlucky successor", plus they plunge her into a world she never imagined - a labyrinth where in fact the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mystical fate connect for an inconceivable evil concealed in the depths of history. The words provide links to 1 of the darkest forces that humanity has ever before known - and to a centuries-long goal to get the source of that darkness and clean it out. It is a search for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign developed the foundation of the star of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young female must determine whether to take up this goal herself - to check out her daddy in a hunt that almost helped bring him to wreck years back, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the star of Vlad the Impaler want to do with today's world? Is it possible that the Dracula of misconception truly existed - and that he has resided on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and edges, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern European countries. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in words and in key conversations, the unpleasant truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign - and about a time-defying pact which could have held his awful work alive down through the age groups. Parsing obscure signs or symptoms and hidden text messages, reading codes worked into the cloth of medieval monastic practices - and evading the unfamiliar adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad's historical forces - one female comes ever closer to the trick of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of bad. Elizabeth Kostova's debut book is an trip of monumental proportions, a relentless story that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful - and absolutely unforgettable.
