Propelled by the discovery of an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters, a young woman plunges into a labyrinth where secrets of her familys past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries, to the capital of Eastern Europe- in a fear of storytelling so rich, so exciting, so suspebseful that it has entralled readers around the world.