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When Saint-Germain transforms the strong-willed Csimenae into a vampire, he inadvertently creates a vampire queen, leaving him with a difficult dilemma when Csimenae is hunted by the authorities five hundred years later.

In the unsettled time when Imperial Rome totters on the brink of collapse, the vampire Ragoczy Germainus Sanct'' Franciscus—the Count Saint-Germain—finds himself targeted by a corrupt Roman official and accused of bribery, tax evasion, and treason. The storm that hovers over the vampire grows darker when he is accused of corrupting Ignatia, a young virgin. Her brother, a zealous covert to the new religion of Christianity, threatens to purify Saint-Germain with fire. And fire can destroy even the undead. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

An ancient vampire born in the Carpathian Mountains journeys to Renaissance Florence in this novel by a Bram Stoker Award winner. In Paris during the reign of Louis XV, Le Comte de Saint-Germain was known as a wealthy, worldly, charismatic aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he was a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BCE, turned in his late thirties, and destined to roam the world forever, watching and participating in the drama of human civilization. Now, in Renaissance Italy, he will witness the collapse of the artistic and literary life in Florence after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, followed by the rise of the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola. From a World Fantasy Award winner, The Palace is a different kind of vampire novel—rich, atmospheric, and full of the sweep of history.

With "Borne in Blood," award-winning author Yarbros saga of Count Saint-Germain reaches a milestone--the 20th volume of the vampires2adventures--in a compelling work of dark fantasy and horror.2368 pp.

A Feast in Exile draws readers back to the time when the Mongol hordes of Timur (known in the West as Tamerlane) swept across fourteenth-century India and Asia. Delhi''s civilized veneer crumbles along with its walls. Foreigners, which the vampire Saint-Germain-here called Sanat Ji Mani-surely is, lose their positions, homes, wealth, and sometimes their lives, if they cannot escape the falling city. Before he can flee Delhi, Sanat Ji Mani must ensure the safety of Avasa Dani, his beautiful ward, who has been abandoned by her husband. Sanat Ji Mani''s love has awakened Avasa Dani''s every sense; even she will become a vampire upon her death, but she finds no terror in this fate. Avasa Dani and Rojire, Sanat Ji Mani''s servant, successfully make their way out of Delhi, but Sanat Ji Mani himself is trapped. His life is bought by his skills with medicine, but, at Timur''s command, he must travel-by day, and exposed to the sun-with the conqueror''s army. Crippled and unable to escape, he knows that his vampire nature will soon be revealed, and then... Avasa Dani, with a worried Rojire at her side, considers her options as a woman without a visible male protector in a land and time ruled by men. While one of Sanat Ji Mani''s allies searches desperately for the missing vampire, Saint-Germain and a young acrobat, with whom he has escaped from Timur''s forces, make their slow and painful way to freedom. The journey changes them both forever. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the sequel to Crusader''s Torch, Atta Olivia Clemens arrives in France to serve Cardinal Mazarin, meets D''Artagnan, and finds a way to end her vampire existence.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s A Flame in Byzantium chronicles Atta Olivia Clemens during the reign of Justinian. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From a Bram Stoker Award winner, the first tale of the ancient Carpathian vampire, set in the Paris of King Louis XV . . . Le Comte de Saint‐Germain appears to be a wealthy, worldly aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he is a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BCE, turned in his late thirties, and destined to roam the world forever, watching and participating in history. In Hôtel Transylvania, this charismatic hero makes his first appearance in the long-running series as he battles against Satanists to preserve the young Madelaine de Montalia from ruin. It’s a richly atmospheric tale of dark fantasy and gothic suspense from the first woman to be named a “Living Legend” by the International Horror Guild, an author who uses “her vampire hero as a lens to focus on the best and worst of human behavior throughout history” (Publishers Weekly).

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s vampire hero returns to Transylvania in Dark of the Sun, a novel in the Count Saint-Germain series It is the 6th century of the common era. The vampire Saint-Germain, known in this time as Zangi-Ragozh, is peacefully doing business in Asia when the island of Krakatoa explodes in a massive volcanic eruption. Tidal waves swamp harbors hundreds of miles away, destroying trade ships and their cargoes; tons of ash and dirt are flung into the air. In the months to come, the world grows colder and darker as the massive volcanic cloud spreads across the globe, blocking sunlight. Sea trade is ravaged. Crops fail. Livestock, and then people, begin to starve. Disease spreads. Panic rises. As always in times of trouble, foreigners-and the vampire is always a foreigner-become targets. Fleeing toward the West, where he hopes to find safety and sanity, the vampire travels with a nomadic tribe led by Dukkai, a female shaman who soon becomes Zangi-Ragozh''s lover. But Zangi-Ragozh''s problems are far from over. His vampire nature is discovered by an enemy; he begins to starve; he is betrayed by one he cared deeply for; he loses everything, even his last sack of his native soil. With the True Death looming, Zangi-Ragozh tries to reach sanctuary in his ancient homeland. Transylvania. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s first Saint-Germain novel, Hotel Transylvania, was recently nominated as Vampire Novel of the Century. Her Saint-Germain cycle, now comprised of more than twenty-five books, is a masterwork of historical horror fiction. The vampire Count Saint-Germain has crisscrossed the world many times, seeking love and the blood of life and seeing humanity at its best and worst. In Night Pilgrims, Saint-Germain is living in a monastery in Egypt when he is hired to guide a group of pilgrims to underground churches in southern Egypt. The vampire finds a companion in a lovely widow who later fears that her dalliance with the Count will prevent her from reaching Heaven. The pilgrims begin to fall prey to the trials of travel in the Holy Lands; some see visions and hear the word of God; others are seduced by desires for riches and power. A visit to the Chapel of the Holy Grail brings many quarrels to a head; Saint-Germain must use all his diplomacy and a good deal of his strength to keep the pilgrims from slaughtering one another. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The vampire Count Saint-Germain, disguised as a missing Hungarian nobleman, is on a spy mission in the heart of Czarist Russia. Almost by the power of his will alone, it seems, Peter the Great is wrestling the city that will one day be St. Petersburg out of swampland. Representatives of the heads of all European states are living in tiny, frigid, wooden homes as they jockey for power and influence over the Czar. When a man shows up claiming to be the Count Saint-Germain, the vampire must figure out how to protect his title and wealth without revealing either his true identity or his True Nature. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

With Europe on the verge of World War I, the vampire Saint-Germain accepts a top-secret assignment from Czar Nicholas of Russia to deliver one last proposal for peace to the crowned heads of Europe. But powerful men plot against him.

Twenty-five years ago, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and her friends began sharing messages from a group entity that called themselves "Michael." Michael''s words were offered without alteration or interpretation for seekers, students, and skeptics alike. Pragmatic, insightful, and often witty, Michael insisted their work was simply to help questioners become more aware and better able to make their own decisions in life. Through this initial volume, Messages From Michael, and three more that followed, Michael spoke to thousands who found new understandings of themselves. Unfortunately imitators and frauds have since exploited the Michael teachings-but even they admit that Messages From Michael was the first source of the teachings. Here, expanded for the twenty-first century, is the long-awaited new edition of this ground-breaking book.

Franzicco Ragoczy di Santo-Germano is a successful merchant in Venice. His lavish lifestyle and rumored cache of magnificent jewels have attracted the wrong sort of attention, and without Santo-Germano''s noble—and papal—connections, he might be imprisoned, his property confiscated. Also under surveillance is the vampire''s mistress, the lovely and talented musician Pier-Ariana Salier. Elsewhere, Ragoczy''s publishing business is being investigated by the Inquisition. Erneste van Amsteljaxter, a writer whose intelligence Ragoczy finds attractive, is tarred with the brush of heresy. Ragoczy is trying to help her, when he learns that Pier-Ariana has disappeared. Back in Venice Santo-Germano finds that his fortune has been embezzled, and that he is accused of kidnapping, and possibly murdering, a young man who had been spying on the vampire and his mistress. Another spy has discovered Santo-Germano''s true nature and intends to kill him before he can feast on all of Venice! At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is best known for her suave, vampire-about-the-world Count Saint-Germain, but she is also an accomplished short fiction writer as well. Five Star is proud to present the best of her dark fantasy and horror fiction all in one collection. Featuring a brand-new short story, Fugues, and an introduction by noted editor Patrick LoBrutto, Apprehensions and Other Delusions is a feast of psychological thrills and chills that readers will enjoy for many dark nights to come. Aside from writing, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has worked as a cartographer, read tarot cards and palms, and composed music, all of which she continues to do. Over the years she has studied seven different instruments, voice, and musical theory: composition, voice, and piano have continued to be active interests for her.

Count Saint-Germain, the 17th century vampire, travels to Rome to help a vampire friend win a court case over an inheritance. The Inquisition is on, and if the count is discovered he could finish on the rack.

Blending the dark eroticism of the vampire with the suspenseful adventure in history''s most exotic locales, Yarbro''s Saint-Germain epic continues in this third book that takes place in the last chaotic days of Nero''s Rome.