Download or read book The Fourth Bride written by Carole Gill and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the tragic and sudden death of her groom, Dia, cursed by Dracula as a babe, is taken to his castle. Once there, she is seduced and turned by the count, to become his fourth bride. The other brides are to be her sisters, but there is great rivalry as the brides compete for their master's affection. Dracula takes Dia away, but to whose castle has he taken her and are they being watched? Dracula's gypsies are loyal to their master and will try to save him but the destroyers led by Van Helsing come, and there is great carnage. Still, for one, there is salvation from the unlikeliest of saviors. There is betrayal and a freak show run by evil men, as well as the greatest passion Dia will ever know. But can she trust it? And what of Dracula's greatest vampire enemy, the one who has fallen in love with Dia; the nobleman Dracula turned. Can he be trusted? Author's excerpt from The Fourth Bride: The incident though, this rising up of vampire killers, disturbed Dracula and he became moody and silent. Eventually, he took me aside. He told me first of himself and of the princely blood he had which flowed through his veins. “These veins,” he said, pointing at them, “once ran with living blood—blood that nourished a human being and not this evil and corruption you see before you.” I scoffed at that, whereupon he smiled sadly. “No, dear one, it is true. I am not as I was, a warrior prince of the house of Dracula who did battle Turks to keep this land free...”