Blood Maidens

Name: Blood Maidens
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by Barbara Hambly Book 3 in the James Asher Vampire Novels series.

First published 2010

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In 1911, rumours reach James Asher that Wilhelm II’s agents are trying to recruit vampires as weapons for the coming European war. He and Don Simon Ysidro travel to St Petersburg, where experiments involving vampire blood may have produced an undead woman able to appear in daylight.

Their inquiry moves through the Russian capital’s aristocratic and occult circles, including the influence surrounding Grigori Rasputin. Ysidro is also searching for a woman he loved centuries earlier, leaving Asher uncertain whether his ally intends to stop the military scheme or recover a vampire whose existence could change the balance between the living and the dead.