Desmond: A Novel of Love and the Modern VampireAlthough Desmond Beckwith is a financial wizard with an international investment empire, a circle of supportive friends, and an elegant New York town house, he feels isolated and cut off from humankind. With good reason: Desmond is a 250-year-old vampire. For two centuries he has lived in New York, looking vainly for love and seeking to satisfy his twin thirsts for the blood and sex of mortal men. Into Desmond's lonely life stumbles Tony Chapman, an unemployed museum curator, down on his luck and one step away from being out on the streets. Tony turns Desmond's protected little world on its head and unlocks pieces of Desmond's past lives and loves that were deeply buried in memory. Desmond may be immortal, but he is not inhuman, and he must find a way to come to grips with his eternal life that includes both his human lover and his acceptance of who - and what - he himself is. |
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... dressed stone . A long rectangle with two high principal floors and a shallower third , it sat on a high base- ment ... dressing room and closet or private study . Sir Charles and Lady Anne had matching suites on the upper floor ...
... dressed stone . A long rectangle with two high principal floors and a shallower third , it sat on a high base- ment ... dressing room and closet or private study . Sir Charles and Lady Anne had matching suites on the upper floor ...
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... dressing table in an elaborate silver gilt ewer with its attendant basin . Fair Holland towels were laid by its side ... dressed him only yesterday morning . It was not the ser- vice he missed but the contact with those gentle hands he ...
... dressing table in an elaborate silver gilt ewer with its attendant basin . Fair Holland towels were laid by its side ... dressed him only yesterday morning . It was not the ser- vice he missed but the contact with those gentle hands he ...
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... dressed in an odd black suit with a long- skirted coat , short pants buckled at the knees , and white stock- ings . The white shirt had a high collar , and he wore an elabo- rately tied neckcloth . It was as if he were dressed for a ...
... dressed in an odd black suit with a long- skirted coat , short pants buckled at the knees , and white stock- ings . The white shirt had a high collar , and he wore an elabo- rately tied neckcloth . It was as if he were dressed for a ...
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