In the fourteenth century, Count Saint-Germain's vampiric identity could be threatened when he is captured by the Mongol conqueror Timur-I, while Tulsi, a beautiful acrobat, is torn between her love for the count and her fears of becoming a vampire, and Avasi Dani, the count's former lover, must adjust to her new vampire life and as woman without a protector in a perilous era. 15,000 first printing.