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The Swordmaster
Audio Book
Publisher: Tantor
Published: Sep 8 2026
Language: English
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Kate Heartfield, comes a swashbuckling Vampires of Dumas story, featuring a new story arc following Françoise de Montesquiou d'Artagnan, a minor nobleman's daughter who travels to Paris and becomes embroiled in a war between shapeshifters and vampires.
For two days and three nights, Françoise de Montesquiou d'Artagnan has slept, trapped in a strange dream of a shifting world of spirits. Everyone in the dream is clad in the forms of animals, including Françoise herself, and they are discussing secret affairs of monsters and princes--until a host of vampires attacks them in the dream. A man with a beautiful voice faces them down, telling her to run.
Françoise wakes in her grave, buried by her grieving parents and abandoned by her fiancé--and determined to find the man who'd saved her life, identifiable only by his voice. She flees to Paris and finds people like her: the Benandanti, born in their cauls, and blessed with the gift to enter the spirit realm in dreams. She learns that the vampires who attacked her in spirit are a threat in the waking world--and that they sit in the highest positions in the land. Only she and her new brothers and sisters can bring them down.
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