{"product_id":"9780759513815","title":"Historian","description":"In this riveting debut of breathtaking scope, a young girl discovers her  father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe  to complete the quest he never could -- to find history's most legendary  fiend -- Dracula.\u003cp\u003e    When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book  and a package of letters, all addressed ominously to \"My dear and  unfortunate successor...\" she begins to unravel a thread that leads back  to her father's past, his mentor's career, and an evil hidden in the  depths of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will  discover is her birthright -- a hunt that nearly brought her father to  ruin and may have claimed the life of his adviser and dear friend,  history professor Bartholomew Rossi. What does the legend of Vlad the  Impaler, the historical Dracula, have to do with the 20th century? Is it  possible that Dracula has lived on in the modern world? And why have a  select few historians risked reputation, sanity, and even their lives to  learn the answer?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    So begins an epic journey to unlock the secrets of the strange medieval  book, an adventure that will carry our heroine across Europe and into  the past -- not only to the times of Vlad's heinous reign, but to the  days when her mother was alive and her father was still a vibrant young  scholar. In the end, she uncovers the startling fate of Rossi, and comes  face to face with the definition of evil -- to find, ultimately, that  good may not always triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    ELIZABETH KOSTOVA graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the  University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the  Novel-in-Progress.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127598268656,"sku":"9780759513815","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780759513815_p0.jpg?v=1763659559","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780759513815","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}