Mina’s Child
In 1920, young Abree Harker, a student at King’s College, tries to find her way as a new woman in a new era. Her brother Quincy perished in the Great War. Her parents, Jonathan and Mina, grieve for him but refuse to speak of the dead. The maid Jenny acts strangely, and a mysterious dark-haired man, a foreigner, stands on the street outside, watching the Harker home. Abree has heard vague stories of a journey her parents took some thirty years earlier to the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe and dreams strange dreams of a woman named Lucy. She believes Lucy was once an old friend of her mother’s, but her mother won’t discuss that either. However, the past will not stay buried. It returns to haunt the Harkers, as well as others involved, even as current events spiral madly out of control.
This imaginative sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula puts an unforgettable and shocking spin on the original story. Readers will enjoy this book more if they are familiar with Stoker’s original tale. Paul Butler has crafted a remarkable novel, one that imbues the story of the vampire count with new depth and new meaning. Recommended.
