I try to read a William Allen White book to my children every summer and last summer wasn't any different. I took the suggestion of the school librarian and picked up Jessica Day George's book Tuesdays at the Castle which opened the door to a summer of Castle Glower adventures. When I discovered Jessica Day George had a new book/series, I was elated! George does her research on her books, so my excitement was at an all time peak when I discovered Silver in the Blood beings in 1897 in New York with two cousins who are on their way to meet their Romanian family, the Florescu, in Bucharest.
The cousins are separated on their journey across the ocean despite their own desires. Dacia is extroverted, troublesome and quite the flirt. She was going to elope with a young, handsome aristocrat of New York society when her family discovers this and ships her off with a maiden aunt. The first of the family secrets to be discovered is when Dacia discovers this maiden aunt to be kissing a man on the train into Bucharest. When the two girls are reunited, they learn their family has old magic; they are shape shifters. They are on this Earth to protect the ancestors of Vlad the Impaler: the family of Dracula. The girls are informed of a Prophecy stating two girls from the New Country will help 'the dark become light' by their position to help the family overturn the King and put the Dracula family on the throne. Thanks to the dark and mysterious man in Paris, the girls discover a secret society who wants to destory the monsters of the night and keep peace within Romania. The girls must learn to control the silver in their blood while also keepign peace in a kingdom and within their own family.
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