Berlin, Germany, 1878: Lady Elizabeth James, the neglected wife of a British diplomat, receives a disturbing reminder of her past-a calling card bearing her father's name. But he disappeared ten years earlier, and Elizabeth believes him dead. When a murder at the British embassy raises even more questions about her father, Elizabeth finds a number of unlikely allies, including an American named Thomas Parson, a self-styled vampire hunter. She becomes embroiled in an intrigue involving fortunetellers, assassins, and foreign spies, but dark forces threaten her at every turn, and as she discovers, even friends harbor deadly secrets.Bucharest, Romania, 1999: Adam Mire reels at the abduction of his one-time love, Clara MacIntosh. Left with the admonition to "work faster," Adam knows he'll only see Clara again if he can find Dracula's infamous medallion. Using the clues he's pieced together, he follows a bloody trail across Romania, but Clara's time is running out.Meanwhile, Clara finds herself in a secluded manor house, the captive of a man both seductive and terrifying. Plagued by dreams of Elizabeth's life in Berlin, Clara works to uncover her mysterious host's agenda. However, she soon realizes both she and Adam are pawns in the schemes of all three of Dracula's Brides, and to stop them, someone will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.