Blood And Chrysanthemums A Vampire Novel (1995) Paperback Book

New! Cover has minor shelf wear and a price sticker. Pages are clean and crisp, no rips, bends or creases.

Becoming a vampire was easier than she had ever dreamed … Living as a vampire was more complicated than she had ever expected … Understanding what it means to be a vampire would prove harder than she had ever imagined …Ardeth Alexander surrendered her mortal life in a night of despair and desire, initiated into a new existence by the five-hundred-year-old vampire, Dimitri Rozokov. Fleeing Toronto, Ardeth and Rozokov settle in the tourist town of Banff, Alberta. While she tests her new strength against the mountains by climbing, Rozokov returns to astronomy, the science of his youth. Together they hunt the dark reaches of the park, preying on the animals they find there, upholding an unspoken agreement not to taste human blood.Yet all their activity cannot disguise their restlessness and soon their fragile happiness is shattered by bitter conflict and inevitable betrayal.