A vacation home possibility turns into an adventure involving vampires and of course, Count Dracula.

In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten....

Bill Hefflin is a man apart--apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love. At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin--a disillusioned Romanian expat--arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions....

Beneath the shadow of impending war in fifteenth-century Wallachia, Ilona Csáki is betrothed to Prince Mircea, as her feelings blossom for her fiance's cousin Andrei and younger brother Vlad Dracula.

Several visiting college students venture into the woods of Transylvania, ignoring the warnings of their professor, Bryan McCallister. When the students disappear, Bryan believes a dark cult is at work, and approaches psychologist Jessica Fraser for assistance. "The search takes them from the forested mountains to dimly lit clubs in New Orleans' French Quarter, where perversion goes beyond sexual to life-threatening. And everywhere, whispering on...

Albert Corde, newspaperman turned academic, accompanies his wife to visit her dying mother in Bucharest. At home in Chicago, his magazine articles and involvement in a student murder scandal have him in the middle of a raging controversy.