<div><div><b>&quot;Chilling . . . A neo-gothic treat; original, richly imagined, and powerfully told.&quot; --<i>The Guardian</i> (UK) for<i>The String Diaries</i></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town.</div><div><br></div><div>See the man, having come of age in extraordinary suffering and tragedy in nineteenth-century Budapest; witness to horror, to love, to death, and the wrath of a true monster. Izsák still lives in the present day, impossibly middle-aged. He's driven not only to hunt this immortal evil but to find his daughter, stolen from an Arctic cabin and grown into the thing Izsák has sworn to kill.</div><div><br></div><div>See the monster, a beautiful, seemingly young woman who stalks the American West, seeking the young and the strong to feed upon, desperate to return to Europe where her coven calls.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Written in the Blood</i> is the epic thriller of the year, a blazing and dexterous saga spanning generations, and threading the lives of five individuals driven by love, by sacrifice, by hunger and by fear. They seek to save a race--or to extinguish it forever.</div></div>