Midnight's Daughter

Sep 13, 2025 11:44 PM

Author:Karen Chance

Midnight's Daughter

A GRIPPING AND ENTERTAINING URBAN FANTASY FOR FANS OF ANNE RICE, DEBORAH HARKNESS AND THE QUICK

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - the daughter of a vampire and a human woman.

Subject to uncontrollable rage and madness, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives.

But for five hundred years, Dory has been fighting to maintain her sanity by unleashing her homicidal tendencies on only those demons and vampires who deserve killing.

But now Dory's vampire father has come back into her life.

Because her uncle Dracula, notorious even among vampires for his cruelty and murderous ways, has escaped from prison, and her father wants Dory to work with the gorgeous vampire dueling champion Louis-Cesare to put him back there.

Vampires and dhampirs are mortal enemies, and Dory prefers to work alone.

But Dracula is the only thing on earth that truly scares her, and when Dory has to go up against him, she'll take all the help she can get . . .

What readers are saying...

'Action packed' 5*****

'Can't recommend this enough' 5*****

'A great read' 5*****

'This book has me hooked' 5*****

'You need to read this' 5*****

Reviews

Karen Chance takes her place along with Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, and J.D. Robb

—— SF Revu

A wonderfully entertaining romp with an engaging heroine

—— Kelley Armstrong

A page-turner of substance. Flaming's blend of real and invented history is a tour de force

—— Selden Edwards, author of The Little Book

A beautiful fable about love, time, technology, and the birth of America

—— Robert Anthony Siegel, author of All Will Be Revealed

Mixes vividly detailed history, enchanting speculation, and time-travel fantasy. A splendid debut of careful research and sparkling imagination, creating a love story and kingdom that never was... or was it?

—— William Dietrich, author of The Dakota Cipher

Absorbed by the twists and turns of the story, I felt like applauding every new idea, every conversation, every mystery and every revelation.

—— Michael Moorcock

Outstanding

—— Vanity Fair

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

Rare...exquisite...a cameo-like perfection

—— New York Herald Tribune

Speaks volumes about heroism and the human condition... A taut, page-turning narrative

—— The Times

Ingenious

—— Time Out

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