More than ten years ago, Jonathan and Mina Harker defeated Count Dracula in Transylvania and returned to England to live a normal life. But in a world of bloody feuds and prejudices, even dead enemies have long memories. A meeting of old friends turns to sudden tragedy, a fearless naturalist brings a new breed of bat from the continent to England, two English gentlemen who meet by chance in the Eastern European hinterland seem to inadvertently awaken an ancient evil—and now darkness is creeping across the British archipelago. And in the strange illness of Lord Godalming's young bride, Mina Harker sees something frighteningly familiar... 'A masterpiece of modern Gothic. A story so gripping it might as well have been written by Bram Stoker himself' (Risingshadow).