Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
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Description
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mina Harker has a close friend—Lucy Westenra, the model “new woman” of the late Victorian era. In Julie C. Dao’s novel The Fog Thickens, this recognizable image takes on a fresh interpretation: Lucy not only tries to choose among three devoted suitors—Arthur Holmwood, the son of Lord Godalming, Dr. John Seward, and his American companion, Texas adventurer Quincey Morris—but also faces a whole chain of long-standing disturbing fixations, including somnambulism and a pull toward the theme of death.
In her dreams, she finds herself again and again on moonlit coastal cliffs in North Yorkshire, at the ruins of the ancient abbey at Whitby, where a mysterious stranger named Vlad appears to her. He calls her “the perfect woman of her era” and promises her eternal life. Lucy can’t resist this new temptation—but what if it’s not dreams at all? And who arrived in the harbor of Whitby on the Russian ship Demeter, which came from Bulgaria—a ship where not a single living soul was found, only thirty crates of earth?..
In 2025, The Fog Thickens was awarded the Romance Writers Association prize as the best book in the “Romantic Fantasy” category.
In her dreams, she finds herself again and again on moonlit coastal cliffs in North Yorkshire, at the ruins of the ancient abbey at Whitby, where a mysterious stranger named Vlad appears to her. He calls her “the perfect woman of her era” and promises her eternal life. Lucy can’t resist this new temptation—but what if it’s not dreams at all? And who arrived in the harbor of Whitby on the Russian ship Demeter, which came from Bulgaria—a ship where not a single living soul was found, only thirty crates of earth?..
In 2025, The Fog Thickens was awarded the Romance Writers Association prize as the best book in the “Romantic Fantasy” category.
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