After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
Seven-year-old Christine spends Christmas Eve helping her great-grandmother decorate her tree and sharing the story of a very special ornament that came from Russia many years before.
The author discusses what it was like to grow up in postwar Bucharest, describing the unique characteristics of her family members and their efforts to protect her from the dangers of living in Communist Romania.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.
Evangeline Harker, a reporter with the popular television news magazine "The Hour" undergoes a dark transformation after an assignment that took her to Transylvania to interview reputed crime boss Ion Torgu, and it is not long before the entire New York staff is infected with a strange malaise.
Thirteen-year-old Flora Popescu and her family find themselves caught up in events leading to the overthrow of the repressive regime of Nicholae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989.
