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About the Diaries: "The Diaries of the Family Dracul" is a series of novels written by Jeanne Kalogridis. The first novel entitled Covenant With the Vampire was published in 1984. The second novel was Children of the Vampire and the last in the series was Lord of the Vampires.

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Summaries are quoted from the back of the book covers:

Covenant with the Vampire

"On a grassy knoll in the Carpathians a young man, newly returned from London, stands in a family graveyard. What he sees is an unspeakable desecration, a crime against his father and the family Dracul…

A Forbidden Caress…

In an ancient castle an English journalist disappears, while a young woman awaits the illicit embrace of her great-uncle, Prince Vlad…

An Ancient Hunger…

In a land of superstition and faith, an evil covenant has been kept for four centuries. Now the young man, Arkady Tsepesh, has returned to inherit that pact, to learn the dark truths that will seize his soul and everything he holds dear…

Covenant With The Vampire…

A novel that dares to penetrate the myth of the family Dracul by beginning fifty years before Bram Stoker's Dracula. Here is the shattering chronicle of one man's dark heritage, of a family bound by blood, torn by the terrible choices , their own evil would demand…"

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Children of the Vampire

"My sister…

In the flickering gaslights of Vienna a brother watches-as a woman of alabaster beauty, his sister, takes two lovers at once. Then she pours her passion into the most forbidden act of all…

My brother…

In the streets of Amsterdam a young man, the secret lover of his brother's wife, is whisked into a waiting carriage for a long journey into darkness and reunion with his father…

My family…

They are a family bound by an ancient curse, one generation pitted against another, taboos shattered, their firstborn's blood sipped from a silver chalice. In his stony fortress waits Vlad the Impaler, while his heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons: "Let the curse end with me!"

Children of the Vampire…

In this terrifying, brilliantly imagined novel, Jeanne Kalogridis returns to the same dark, erotic territory she visited in Covenant with the Vampire. Once again she explores the breathtaking battle waged in the heart of the Family Dracul-- as the innocent take up arms against the monster."

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Lord of the Vampires

"A Touch of Velvet. A Touch of Blood.

For a half century, a beautiful woman has been a prisoner to one man's cruelty. She is Zsuzsanna, the once-exquisite niece of Vlad Tsepesh- also known as Dracula-robbed of her beauty and her youth by Dracula himself. Now, through a ceremony of blood and passion, Zsuzsanna is about to be set free-- under a woman's caress.

Zsuzsanna's rebirth comes from the touch of the vampire Elisabeth of Bathory, the beautiful, sensuous countess determined to destroy Vlad forever. But when Zsuzsanna travels to England with Elisabeth, she will be bitterly surprised. For while the lovers stalk Abraham Van Helsing, the mysterious doctor who is the key to Vlad's destruction, Zsuzsanna discovers that Elisabeth has a secret life… and a pact with the one being more powerful and more dangerous than Dracula: the mythical Dark Lord.

Lord of the Vampires

From the rosy clouds of a Rumanian dawn to the touch of velvet against flesh, Lord of the Vampires is an experience in breathtaking sensuality and true terror. With this spellbinding novel, the crowning work in Jeanne Kalogridis's heralded vampire trilogy, the final drama is played out-- with the soul of humankind hanging in the balance."

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