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Series: Misc
Genre: Horror
ISBN: 0446529818
Pages: 448 pages
Publisher: Warner Aspect
Price: $24.95
Reader Rating: 7 out of 10
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Night Blooming by Chelsea Quinn YarbroDescription: In A. D. 796 Gaul, virtuous Gynethe Mehaut is spied upon with hatred and horror as she tends a convent's night-blooming gardens. An albino who cannot tolerate sunlight and whose hands bleed as if constantly crucified, Gynethe Mehaut hopes the bishops can heal her stigmata—but instead they believe she is a demon who must be destroyed....
Not far from the convent, the mercurial Frankish conqueror Karl-lo-Magne receives the services of a foreign scholar, Hiernom Rakoczy de Sanctus Germanius. Great Karl, whom history will call Charlemagne, is seeking to gather Europe's literate elite to help resurrect the glorious ancient Roman era…with himself as Emperor. Unbeknownst to him is the depth of Rakoczy's knowledge of antiquity, for the outsider is a vampire who has seen the rise and fall of many empires in his 2,800 years.
Rakoczy's vast learning soon arouses Karl's suspicion and he sentences both the stranger and the "demon" Gynethe Mehaut to face a Papal inquisition. On the deadly roads to ruined Rome, passion blooms between the two night-dwellers. As Rakoczy's compassion enflames Gynethe Mehaut, the maligned virgin's blood and dreams seduce the cursed vampire.
Now there is only one way Rakoczy can save the woman he loves from the prejudices of this dark age. But if he dares to rescue the doomed albino, the rage of the defied King will bring the wrath of a continent down upon them both-and an innocent girl's soul will be forever damned...
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