Moon Rising

One long hot summer in the 1880s Bram Stoker escaped to seaside Whitby from the pressures of theatre life in London. These months are unaccounted for, and around them Ann Victoria Roberts has woven a passionate, mysterious, and enthralling novel.A married Bram Stoker, about to begin the writing of his famous novel, develops a dangerous relationship with a local girl from an old seafaring family, who introduces him to the wild sea, the wrecks, and local legends -- some of which will come to new life in Dracula -- and to his own weaknesses and desires.