Dracula in Love GIVEAWAY!

Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

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And The Winner Is.... Pixie! Thanks to EVERYONE for joining in on the fun! I'll be writing a separate post with all the great vampires everyone mentioned too! Some of those vampires I never knew about! Thanks for letting me know!

"Reader, you are about to enter a world that exists simultaneous with your won. But be warned: in its realm, there are no rules, and there is certainly no neat formula to become -- or to destroy -- one who has reisen above the human condition... The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.

London, 1890. Mina Murray, the rosy-cheeked, quintessentially pure Victorian heroine, becomes Count Dracula’s object of desire. To preserve her chastity, five male “defenders” rush in to rescue her from the vampire’s evil clutches. This is the version of the story we've been told. But now, from Mina’s own pen, we discover that the story is vastly different when told from the female point of view.

In this captivating, bold act of storytelling, award-winning author Karen Essex breathes startling new life into the characters of Bram Stoker's Dracula, transporting the reader into the erotic and bizarre underbelly of the original story. While loosely following the events of its classic predecessor, Dracula in Love deviates from the path at every turn." ... Inside Book Jacket

I loved this book! It's haunting, the writing is wonderful, and it's everything you'd want in a gothic love story. Karen Essex has taken the classic story of Dracula and with the stroke of her pen transformed it into a fresh love story that transcends time. I read and reviewed Dracula in Love about a month ago, and was so excited to share it with you! If you missed my review, here's The Link to read it. NOW, courtesy of Doubleday Publishing I have a Hardcover copy of Dracula in Love to GIVE AWAY! Visit Karen Essex's website! Read an Excerpt of Dracula in Love! And Enter for a chance to win your very own copy of Dracula in Love! Here's How to Enter...

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This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only. I'll be shipping the books through the US Mail! Contest ends 11:59pm EST on Aug.21st. I will randomly pick the winner the next day and email him or her! (please check your email.. winner must reply to me within 3 days! Thanks!) Good Luck!

*Dracula in Love was just published this past week! You can find a copy at your local bookstore now! AND, This Book is Kindle Ready too!

Dracula in Love by Karen Essex ...A Review

"I stared into the flames as they resurrected images and memories from my first days with him in this very room so many lifetimes ago. There is no explanation for love; no spoken words compare with its silent exhilaration. If that was true of the ordinary love between two mortals - if love is ever ordinary - then it was truer of a love that has contorted itself into different bodies in different eras over the centuries." ...Mina Murray

Dracula in Love by Karen Essex is seductive. It is the telling of a love story that had endured centuries, the love story between Count Dracula and Mina Murray, and part of that story is Count Dracula's rich history and how he became immortal. Karen Essex's prose is beautiful, draping itself around you and slowly drawing you in. Dracula in Love is erotic and passionate, and everything you'd want in a gothic love story. It's haunting, it's wonderful and I LOVED it!

In the original story by Bram Stoker, Dracula was everything that embodied evil, a blood sucking monster who almost destroyed the lives of a young naive lawyer he had hired, Jonathan Harker, and Harker's "prim & proper" fiance & soon to be wife, Mina Murray. Dracula's ultimate seduction of Mina was an act of revenge. But in Dracula in Love, the story of Dracula is told through Mina's eyes, with a backstory that has Dracula as Mina's soulmate, with a power over her that 700 years of yearning could not break. Even as she marries Jonathan Harker, she is drawn to him... in vivid erotic dreams she shares herself with the mysterious man she later knows to be Dracula. Her seduction is far from undesired, as the stirred memories of her past life with Dracula slowly open up a world that her victorian sensibilities should reject, but instead draw her even farther into the arms of Dracula.

Walk the dark, damp streets of Victorian England... Listen to the faint whispers of the night... watch out for the unnatural ones called vampires... OK, just read it! Karen Essex does an amazing job of creating a handsome, brooding, passionate Dracula any girl would love to invite in for a bite. And Mina is the ultimate heroine at first gentle and bound by the Victorian morals imposed on women of the time, but whose strong will and determination give her the strength to become so much more. And as if the love story weren't enough to satisfy any reader, Karen does a wonderful job of painting a true portrait of the women of the late 19th century, and what their place in society was. If walking the dark streets of Victorian England appeal to you, if a brooding handsome seductive vampire makes your knees weak, and if you love a girl who knows her own mind you will enjoy Dracula in Love! I was so fortunate to receive an ARC of Dracula in Love from Doubleday! Now I'm going to have to check out the other books Karen Essex has written because her writing in Dracula in Love was just so beautiful I want to read more.

Mark your calendars for August 10th, because that's when Dracula in Love will be coming to a bookstore near you!

*Hey, I'm sharing this with Cym Lowell's Book Review Party!

First Lines...

"Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived."

Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

(coming August 2010)

This is Victorian Vampire Wonderful!