Borne in Blood Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The 20th installment in Yarbro's long-running series featuring the elegant vampire Count Saint-Germain opens in Switzerland in 1817, just after the defeat of Napoléon. As the count seeks to heal the grief of his current mistress, Hero, a widow of the Napoleonic War, he becomes intrigued by the work of an Austrian scientist who is inve... more »stigating the unique properties of blood, a subject always of key interest to a vampire. But when the noble's beautiful young ward fixates sexually on the Count, the vampire fears that it is his blood the Austrian will be most interested in!« less