num_pages: 307
description: For fans of Mexican Gothic from three-time Bram Stoker Awardwinning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature--from Lucy Westenra a victim of Stokers Dracula and Bertha Mason from Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre--as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love Haight-Ashbury 1967.Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature Dracula and Mr. Rochester and the two women who survived them Bertha and Lucy who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a mans world.
language: English
title: Reluctant Immortals
publisher: Saga Press