Children of the Night Author:Dan Simmons Kate Neuman, a top American haematology researcher, is in Bucharest to help the orphans. Kate strives to save the AIDS babies and other abandoned children in a nation torn by revolution, stifled by centuries of oppression, and afflicted by superstitions reaching back to a darks and bloody past. — But it is one specific child who captures first he... more »r attention as a physician, and then her heart as a mother. Afflicted by vicious immune-deficiency diseases, seven-month-old Joshua's prognosis is bleak. But simple blook transfusions help the child to rally despite the prognosis and despite logic. Kate Neuman soon realizes the baby Joshua is nothing less than a miracle child. His genes may hold the cure for cancer and AIDS, as well as a clue to human immortality.
Helped by Father Michael O'Rourke, Kate battles the malevolent Romanian bureaucracy to adopt Joshua and return him to the United States, where only the most advanced medical technology can save the child and reveal the mystery of his amazing immune system. But just as the research promises an astounding breakthrough, just as Kate Neuman's life seems to be approaching fulfilment in her love for her son, terror reaches a cold hand from the dark forests of Transylvania to change her life forever...« less