Bücher von Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

More than a third of Saint-Germain's long, long life was spent in the shadow of the Pyramids, in service to the temples of Egypt--but the tale of those years has never been told before.In Out of the House of Life, readers of Yarbro's series can at last discover how a bloodthirsty demon, captured and enslaved by the high priests of the temple of Imhotep, was transformed into priest and physician and then, finally, into an immortal being of great power and greater wisdom.

The Comte de Saint-Germain is living in relative peace and prosperity in the village of Orgon in fourteenth-century France. He has won a grudging acceptance from the local populace, who are uneasy with his strange and foreign ways but appreciative of his generosity. But a new threat has upset the precarious balance: Plague has come to France, and the people's fear turns to xenophobia. To avoid the scrutiny that could reveal his true nature, Saint-Germain must flee. However, his travels drive him deeper into the heart of the Black Death--and danger.

The year is 1817. In Switzerland, the Count has become intrigued by the work of an Austrian noble who is investigating the properties of blood, a subject always of key interest to a vampire. But when the noble's beautiful young ward fixates sexually on the Count, the vampire fears that it is his blood the Austrian will be most interested in!

The vampire Count Saint-Germain, disguised as a missing Hungarian nobleman, is on a spy mission in the heart of Czarist Russia. Almost by the power of his will alone, Peter the Great is wresting the city that will one day be St Petersburg out of swampland.

In the unsettled time when Imperial Rome totters on the brink of collapse, the vampire Ragoczy Germainus Sanct' Franciscus-the Count Saint-Germain-finds himself targeted by a corrupt Roman official and accused of bribery, tax evasion, and treason.The storm that hovers over the vampire grows darker when he is accused of corrupting Ignatia, a young virgin. Her brother, a zealous covert to the new religion of Christianity, threatens to purify Saint-Germain with fire. And fire can destroy even the undead.

Writer Erneste van Amstelijaxter, whose goodness inspires Santo-Germano, is threatened with the inquisition. Pier-Ariana Salier, a musician who has been Santo-Germano's lover, loses her home and livelihood to an unscrupulous spymaster. Worse, a spy has discovered the vampire's true nature and intends to kill him.

The explosion triggers tsunamis that destroy ships and seaports. During the bleak, seemingly endless winter that follows, people blame gods and devils for their troubles. The vampire Saint-Germain is unwilling to feed on the starving and knows that women who fear the supernatural do not welcome vampire lovers. Can a vampire starve to death?

In the eary 600s, Saint-Germain makes a vampire of the lovely Csimenae. As Spain passes into the control of the Visigoths and is later conquered by the Arabs, Csimenae, against Saint-Germain's teachings, becomes a mother of vampires and risks exposure and the true death for all.