Arabus Drake, Greek vampire for 500 years, shares tales of his adventures, but unlike in the first book, “Love Stories,” here all he seeks is to belong somewhere. The adventures begin in 1505, where Arabus befriends a thief in Italy in his desire to be destroyed, until he realizes that too much time has passed since Althea left him. In 1603, Arabus travels back to Greece to find what became of his family bloodline. He meets a wandering poet who becomes obsessed with this man he thinks is a god. Arabus learns how his family died after he became vampiric, and uncovers the truth of the boy’s obsession with him.Along the way you will hear from three narrators who a...

Duty was his life until she arrived in Japan.
Step into 17th-century Japan, where honour and loyalty are code.
Junsaku Aoyama, driven by an unshakeable belief in his destiny, is determined to become Japan’s greatest samurai. However, when a foreign woman arrives on a Dutch merchant ship, she awakens emotions in him that he never knew he could feel and desires that threaten to alter the course of his life.
Caught between his loyalty to his country and his love for his family, Junsaku must navigate the treacherous waters of honour and duty even as a mysterious ghost draped in black warns him that his path ahead will require more than just the skill of a blade.