Bloodline — Kate Cary

MY DEAR DAUGHTER, I FEAR AN OLD ENEMY HAS RETURNED. AN ENEMY MY FRIENDS AND I• HAD HOPED OUR OWN CHILDREN WOULD NEVER KNOW. FROM WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD ME, I BELIEVE QUINCEY -HARKER IS DESCENDED FROM THE SAME EVIL, PARASITIC PRESENCE I HELPED REMOVE FROM THE WORLD THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO -- ONE COUNT DRACULA.

WHEN nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from the trenches of World War I, he is haunted by nightmares -- not only of the horrors of battle but of the strange, cruel, and impossible feats of his regiment's commander, Quincey Harker. Harker's ferocity knows no limits, and his strength seems superhuman.

At first John blames his bloody nightmares on trench fever. But when Harker appears in England and begins wooing John's sister, Lily, John must confront the truth and stop Harker from continuing Dracula's bloodline.