When Audrey Rose Wadsworth is horrified to discover the true identity of Jack the Ripper, she needs to escape London and her memories here. Together with the arrogant but charming Thomas, he travels to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of the best forensic medicine schools in Europe... as well as another famous murderer, Vlad III, with his legendary bloodlust.

But Audrey's life's dream is soon derailed by brutal discoveries in the corridors of the school's menacing castle, after which the girl is forced to investigate strangely familiar murders. And what she finds reawakens her terrible fears.

In this follow-up to Kerri Maniscalco's riveting debut, In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper, we encounter more bizarre murders in the castle of Vlad III, also known as Dracula. Could these be pattern murders... Or has a twisted killer returned to the world of the living?