Le Pouvoir du sang
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Poppy Z. Brite |
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Depressed after the sudden collapse of her marriage, Carol Robins has left Philadelphia for Paris and a week later finds herself in Bordeaux. That's where she meets André, a young vampire who becomes obsessed with her body. To save her hide, Carol offers André a deal: she will be his slave for two weeks and in exchange he won't drink her blood and will let her live. Held captive in a mansion where André lives with other creatures of the night, his family, Carol's life quickly becomes a nightmare, because her master is unstable and violent. Finally free of his clutches, however, Carol will at once go look for him, for she now has a new reason for living: to find the child the very memory of whom André tried to take from her. L'enfant de la nuit (Child of the Night), the first book in one of the most fascinating vampire series ever, Le Pouvoir du sang (The Power of the Blood). |
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Nancy Kilpatrick Translation by Bérard and Grenier of |
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After an extremely painful love affair, David Hardwick, a vampire more than a hundred years old, has shut himself away for twenty years in his old mansion in Manchester, England. But one night, after sunset, a young woman, a drug addict from New York, Zero, slips into his lair, armed with a mallet and a stake. Who sent this poor girl to murder him ? And why ?
David must find answers to these questions, for he knows that
this pathetic murder attempt is really a message someone has
sent to him. And the only way to find the sender is for him to
go to New York La Mort tout près (Near Death), book two in one of the most vampire fascinating series, Le Pouvoir du sang (The Power of the Blood). |
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Nancy Kilpatrick Translation by Bérard and Grenier of |
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One night, Michel is roaming the Côte-des-Neiges cemetery with his Aunt Chloe, a vampire two centuries old, when she disappears into the columbarium. Worried, the teenager also enters the house of the dead and finds the dismembered body of his aunt. The family reacts with utter horror : who could have vanquished such a powerful creature ? But even worse news comes : other Ancients are being murdered in the same way all around the globe. There is no longer any doubt : someone, or something, wants to exterminate the family. Karl, in despair after the death of his companion Gerlinde, heads the investigation. He very soon discovers that the goal of the slaughter is not the elimination of vampires but the acquisition of the phenomenal and unsuspected power of the vital essence of Michel, the child of the night. Renaissance (Reborn), book three in one of the
most fascinating vampire series ever, Le Pouvoir du sang (The
Power of the Blood) |
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Nancy Kilpatrick Translation by Bérard and Grenier of |
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Julien is more than four hundred years old and he is what human mythology calls a vampire, a creature of night and death. He lives in London and has recently noticed a young American woman, Jeanette, who, without being aware of it, has completely enthralled him. He has therefore decided she will become his immortal companion. But Julien is no longer human, his mind is different and for him love must be absolute, excessive, limitless and, of course, eternal. He also believes that in order for love to reach these summits, the one who will share his life after death must above all totally submit to his will, which means totally being possessed and subjugated. Only in knowing the lowest depths of love can one reach its highest peaks. La Passion du sang (Bloodlover), book four in one of the most fascinating vampire series ever, Le Pouvoir du sang (The Power of the Blood). |
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Nancy Kilpatrick Translation by Bérard and Grenier of |