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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( K ) : Kalogridis, Jeanne

• Lord of the Vampires (Diaries of the Family Dracul)

  Jeanne Kalogridis

  
  After the death of his half brother, Stefan, at the hands of Vlad Tsepesh--also known as Dracula--and after the destruction of his vampire father, Arkady, also at the hands of Vlad, Abraham van Helsing has traveled the world slaying many vampires. With every vampire he destroys, Bram becomes stronger and Vlad weaker, and soon Bram hopes he will be able to finally kill the fearsome vampire who has kept the Tsepesh family enslaved through a centuries-old blood ritual.
  
  
  
  But a desperate Vlad and his vampire great-niece, Zsuzanna, summon help from the most powerful, brutal, and beautiful vampire of all--Countess Elizabeth of Bathory. Bram learns of their plot to destroy him, and makes his own move to strike out at Vlad before Vlad can put him to death. He teams up with a courageous band of humans as he hunts Vlad--including Mina Harker and John Seward--and they finally succeed in killing the head of the Tsepesh clan, just as Bram Stoker foretold in Dracula. But the terror does not end with the death of Vlad, for there is another force that drives Vlad, Zsuzanna, Elizabeth and all the vampires, an ancient entity more evil than anything Bram has ever encountered: the Lord of the Vampires. And for Bram to defeat this dark lord, he must once again risk losing his very soul, to save not only his family, but humanity as well.
  
  
  
  In her final book in The Diaries of the Family Dracul trilogy, Jeanne Kalogridis brilliantly melds her own fascinating story of the Tsepesh family with that of Bram Stoker's classic, Dracula. Told in diary form like the first two books and Stoker's own chilling tale, LORD OF THE VAMPIRES reveals the dark, startling truths behind the original Dracula.
  
   

• Covenant With the Vampire

  Jeanne Kalogridis

  
  This cilling first title in an exciting new trilogy is a rich and terrifying historical novel set fifty years before the opening of Bram Stocker's "Dracula".
  
  At the castle of Prince Vlad Tsepesh, also known as Dracula, Vlad's great nephew Arkady has recently taken over the job of managing the thriving, busy estate. The ties in the Dracul family are strong and Arkady is honored to care for his beloved, though strange, great-uncle...until he begins to realize what is expected of him in his new role--a dilemma too terrible to contemplate. Arkady's newborn son is being groomed to take his place in this ghastly fate; he knows that he must fight Dracula, even if it means death.
  
   

• Children of the Vampire

  Jeanne Kalogridis, Susan Erickson

  
  With "Covenant with the Vampire", Jeanne Kalogridis launched a thrilling new vampire trilogy that takes on one of the most intriguing horror classics of all time - Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Haunting, sensuous, and compulsively listenable, this debut novel was published to critical acclaim, and established Kalogridis as a writer to be reckoned with in vampire fiction. Now "Children of the Vampire", the dark and stylishly erotic second book in the series, delves even deeper into the terrifying mysteries behind Dracula.
  
  It is Amsterdam, 1871, twenty-five years before the start of Stoker's novel, and twenty-five years following Arkady Tsepesh's flight from his family's ancestral castle with his wife and young son, Stefan, after learning that he and his family are bound by an ancient covenant to serve their ancestor, Prince Vlad Tsepesh - Dracula. Now a vampire, Arkady has tried to break the covenant and failed. Separated from his beloved wife and son, he has one all-consuming desire - to destroy Vlad before he draws son Stefan into eternal service through the blood ritual. He tracks Vlad and his kidnapped son to Transylvania as he seeks to free his family and put an end to the terrible covenant - even if it means he must destroy his own son.