Laura Caxton había jurado no volver a enfrentarse a los vampiros. El horror de su último encuentro era aún demasiado reciente. Pero cuando Jameson Arkeley, herido y apenas reconocible, acude a ella con un inquietante descubrimiento, su determinación se desmorona. Un arqueólogo de la zona acaba de en
99 coffins: a historical vampire tale
✍ Scribed by David Wellington
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype;Three Rivers Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307406938
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Laura Caxton vowed never to face them again. The horror of what the vampires did is too close, the wounds too fresh. But when Jameson Arkeley, broken and barely recognizable, comes to her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her resolve crumbles.
Arkeley leads Caxton to a tomb in Gettysburg recently excavated by a local archaeology professor. While the town, with its legendary role in the Civil War's worst battle, is no stranger to cemeteries, this one is remarkably, eerily different. In it lie 100 coffins--99 of them occupied by vampires, who, luckily, are missing their hearts. But one of the coffins is empty and smashed to pieces.
Who is the missing vampire? Does he have access to the 99 hearts that, if placed back in the bodies of their owners, could reanimate an entire bloodthirsty army? How did the vampires end up there, undisturbed and undiscovered for 150 years? The answer lies in Civil War documents that contain sinister secrets about the newly found...
✦ Subjects
A Historical Vampire Tale
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