num_pages: 440
description:  Dating Sucks &amp; Love BitesHappy couple Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra have begun to garner national attention for their quirky New Orleans true-crime podcast Shadowcast. When Lucy's brother Harker disappears while researching the popular new dating app Thrall they're thrown into a real-life mystery. Aided by their social media expert Arthur and Harker's professor Van Helsing they follow the trail hoping to find Harker before it's too late.When their investigation crosses the path of a possible serial killer the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur. And as they race against the app's countdown clock so does the line between friendship and love. What starts as a flirtatious rivalry between computer-savvy Arthur and techno-averse Van Helsing becomes much more and Mina and Lucy's relationship is tested in the fires of social media.As they get down to the wire the group discovers that nothing on their screens is as it seemsincluding their enemy.A modern retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula. 
language: English
title: Thrall
publisher: Philtre Press