Mary Russell and Holmes travel back to Roumania where he had been masquerading as an archaeologist before Mary summoned him to Monaco over the Clarissa Hudson affair. Holmes, approached by Queen Marie (and subsequently Mycroft Holmes much to Mary's disquiet) is reluctantly investigating a threat to Marie's young daughter. Marie has transformed her country from a backwater into a force to be reckoned with and Mycroft suspects political motives are behind the threat.
Holmes and Russell aren't so sure; preceding the Queen's arrival at Castle Bran, her summer home on the border with neighboring Transylvania, their nightly patrols outside the castle grounds uncover a clever campaign seeded with bitterness, playing on the superstitions of the villagers and the old legends of strigoi - known in the west as vampires.
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