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Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Lepore grew up in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a Ph. D. in professional psychology in 1987. She has worked as a licensed psychologist in practice for over twenty years. She resides in Maryland with her husband of twenty-six years. They have three children.The Emma Andrews series, which combines elements of horror and romance with a strong mystery/thriller element, has Lepore delving deep into her psychological background. Set amidst the elements of the gothic romances she read voraciously growing up, these books give her the chance to explore the intricacies of relationships and personality in an ongoing series featuring an ensemble cast thrown into high stakes situations. She is ecstatic to have recaptured the pure love of storytelling that seems to be--similar to what Emma Andrews finds out in her quest--in her blood. Klappentext Born by blood to be Dhampir—a vampire hunter—Emma Andrews nearly lost her life and everyone she loves at Dulwich Manor. Now something evil is preying on students at a northern Lake District girls' school—the same school Emma's mother attended years ago. Drawn as much by the desire to learn more about her family's secrets as the possibility of vampires, Emma finds the schoolgirls in the grip of a terrible legacy—the ageless evil of the Cyprian Queen, a dark goddess of ancient legend. Now Emma must tread a careful path—along with her old friends Sebastian, Father Luke, and the mysterious and dashing Valerian Fox—deeper into the darkness to face her most paralyzing fears . . . and perhaps come one step closer to the Dracula himself. Zusammenfassung A masterful gothic chiller, Immortal with a Kiss is a paranormal historical adventure that fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Jane Austen alike are certain to cherish. In a starred review, Booklist called Descent into Dust, Jacqueline Lepore’s first novel to feature Victorian vampire slayer Emma Andrews, “Deliciously macabre”—and in Immortal with a Kiss Emma travels to a girls’ school plagued by the undead to fulfill her great and terrible destiny as an avenger…and, perhaps, confront her sworn nemesis: the elusive monster Dracula. ...
