Rupert Sent Leger, a soldier of fortune, inherits a vast estate on condition that he live for a year in a castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains, a small Balkan nation on the Adriatic. On a stormy night a woman wrapped in a shroud appears at his window, cold and wet, begging for shelter.
Stoker’s later novel teases the vampire tale he made famous with Dracula before turning toward Balkan adventure. Download the free EPUB.