Incarnation

by Emma Cornwall

Overview

Lucy Weston tracks down the novelist Bram Stoker in her search to reveal the dark force who made her a vampire—and regain her humanity in the process.

In the steampunk world of Victorian London, a beautiful vampire seeks out the author of Dracula–to set the record straight . . .

If one is to believe Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire tale, Lucy Weston is Dracula’s most wanton creation, a sexual creature of the night who preys on innocent boys. But the real-life Lucy is nothing like her fictional counterpart—and she demands to know why the Victorian author deliberately lied. With Stoker’s reluctant help, she’s determined to track down the very fiend who transformed her—from the sensual underworld where humans vie to become vampires, to a hidden cell beneath a temple to madness, and finally into the glittering Crystal Palace where death reigns supreme.

Haunted by fragmentary memories of her lost life and love, Lucy must battle her thirst for blood as she struggles to stop a catastrophic war that will doom vampires and humans alike. Ultimately, she must make a choice that illuminates for her—and for us—what it means to be human.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439190357
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	09/18/2012
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.42(w) x 8.06(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Emma Cornwall is a pseudonym of an established author who has written New York Times bestselling historical and contemporary fiction.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Clever and surprising, Cornwall's writing sparkles with intrigue." —Shana Abe, New York Times bestselling author of the Drakon series

Editorial Reviews

"Clever and surprising, Cornwall's writing sparkles with intrigue." —Shana Abe, New York Times bestselling author of the Drakon series

From the Publisher

In a steampunk Victorian London, a young woman named Lucy Weston watches the opera Aida, mesmerized and horrified by the plight of the doomed lovers as they are sealed in a tomb. The tall, handsome tenor commands her attention and hypnotizes her into a deep sleep. She awakens trapped inside a sealed coffin and fights her way out of the grave with a newfound physical strength, determined to find the being who has turned her into a vampire. When Lucy discovers that author Bram Stoker has distorted her life in Dracula, she seeks to confront him to learn why he lied. Lucy soon finds that she may be the key to stopping a coming war between vampires and humans. VERDICT Cornwall, a pseudonym for a New York Times best-selling author of historical and contemporary fiction, blends vampires, steampunk elements, and time travel into an interesting though not particularly original paranormal novel. The plot is carried out unevenly, but the well-realized characters will hold a reader's attention.—Patricia Altner, Information Seekers, Columbia, MD.

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