Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written,The Historianis the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her familys past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europein a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world.