373 Pages
When the body of a young woman is discovered, Professor Felix Guichard is asked to consult since she had occult symbols drawn all over her body. The course of his investigation leads him to a woman called Jackdaw Hammond who lets Felix in on a secret, she's dead and her life has been extended by the very symbols he discovered on the girls body.
The book skips backward in time to Elizabethans Edward Kelley and John Dee who have been summoned by the King of Poland to save his niece Countess Elisabeth Bathory. They start to uncover a ritual very similar to the one used to save Jackdaw in the future.
It turns out that the blood of those whose lives are extended is very useful for saving and curing people of their ills. It is also useful for extending the lives of a group of "vampires" such as Elizabeth Bathory who is still around nearly 500 years later. Of course everyone is fighting over the latest saved girl who is still in Jackdaw's house. A very convoluted and not so entertaining book. At least the dog doesn't get killed.
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