The Swordmaster by Heartfield, Kate

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Author: Heartfield, KateHorror & ghost storiesPublished on 5 November 2026 by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. in the United Kingdom as part of The Vampires of Dumas series.Paperback | 304 pages198 x 129 | 211g
For two days and three nights, Franoise de Montesquiou dArtagnan has slept, trapped in a strange dream of a shifting world of spirits. Everyone in the dream is clad in the forms of animals, including Franoise herself, and they are discussing secret affairs of monsters and princes until a host of vampires attacks them in the dream. A man with a beautiful voice faces them down, telling her to run.Franoise wakes in her grave, buried by her grieving parents and abandoned by her fianc and determined to find the man whod saved her life, identifiable only by his voice. She flees to Paris and finds people like her: the Benandanti, born in their cauls, and blessed with the gift to enter the spirit realm in dreams. She learns that the vampires who attacked her in spirit are a threat in the waking world and that they sit in the highest positions in the land. Only she and her new brothers and sisters can bring them down.