Description: "Never underestimate the power of love." A tale of tragedy, murder, revenge in the golden age of piracy. Charity Rakham is the daughter of a merchant seaman who finds herself orphaned when her father and fiance' are killed by the dread pirate Blackbeard and his crew. Sold into slavery to a man called Rosenthorne, she learns about life and vampires in short order at his house, where nothing is as it appears. Charity finds a friend in his wife Illyana, who is bedridden but independent of spirit. They plot to escape the house together, but Rosenthorne murders Illyana. Now a fugitive, Charity gains her freedom and justice with the help of her enduring courage, a vampire, and a legend. Not a YA book. Children of The Dragon book 6. - The Children of The Dragon vampire series is epic science fiction, myth and history, romance, tragedy and triumph; linked together by the theme of the vampire as hero.