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Publisher: Warner Books
Release Date: September 2003
ISBN: 0-446-53240-1
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Format Reviewed: Hard Cover
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Genre: Historical Horror
Reviewed: 2004
Reviewer: Faith V. Smith
Reviewer Notes: Explicit Sexual Content 

Midnight Harvest
By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro


     Ferenc Ragoczy le Comte de Saint-German is forced to flee Spain just before the onset of WWII, but it is not the first time he has left all he owns behind. For the four thousand years he has walked the earth, there have been wars and he knows that mankind will continue to squabble and squeak over what is nothing more than a need to domineer.

      His life as the undead or a vampire has always been exciting; he’s dodged vampire hunters and men who sought to kill him just because he is different. His title has been a mark of animosity for all who have less in life and who despise the rich. Saint-German understands human nature; after all, he was once one of their kind.

      His flight sends him to Boston in the continental United States and then across the country to the wine vineyards of California; where he renews his relationship with Rowena Saxon. The lovely artist knows him as only a few can and is willing to share a blood bond with him.

      Saint-German again finds himself on the verge of flight when a man seeking Saint-German’s death attacks Rowena. When the same man almost kills him, the debonair and usually laid-back Count seeks revenge. In order to protect Rowena, he decides to return to the adversity he left in Europe.

       Ms. Yarbro’s novel is a bit different than any vampire books I have read. Instead of wooing the reader with blood and ghoulish fiends, she taunts you with a man or creature who is polite, old-worldly and compassionate.