Dracula's Child

Years have passed since Jonathan and Mina Harker defeated Count Dracula in Transylvania and went home to England hoping for quiet lives. Their son Quincy is growing up, and the strain between his parents grows with him. Jonathan has begun drinking heavily, Mina feels cut off within her own household, and Quincy finds it hard to measure up to a family whose name carries such weight. A reunion of old friends ends in a disaster that exposes the fractures in the marriage.

The Harkers are not the only ones in danger. As Jonathan and Mina struggle over how to raise a child while still haunted by what they survived, a new threat stirs on the Continent. A naturalist plans to bring an unfamiliar species of bat to London. Two English gentlemen travelling Europe form an unusual, reckless attachment and blunder into a far greater catastrophe than they expected. Something long believed buried is also starting to awaken.