High in the Carpathian Mountains, Beckett's nemesis, Vasile Tepes, is contemplating the unthinkable - the resurrection of his ancestor, Vlad Tepes, better known - thanks to the fiction classic - as
Dracula
. Meanwhile, Lane, Beckett's partner and love, still lies in Greece in the Long Sleep, healing from the near-fatal wounds received at the hands of Tepes, leaving Beckett to watch over things back home, and wait. Vasile Tepes has invited the elders of the other vampire Houses to a meeting at his mountain home where war is on the agenda - war between the Born and the Created vampires. And he has his eye on his first target - The Sanctuary, where newly-turned vampires can find help. In this final part of the Father Beckett Trilogy, the future of the Created vampires hangs in the balance. Lives will be lost, lives will be changed forever, and bonds will be strengthened in the final battle in the depths of the Transylvanian winter. Fans of the Mike Travis novels will be pleased to find him here in this cross-over story.