CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

In this book, the communist dictator of Romania is dead, lined up against a wall and shot. His legacy is a nation where hundreds of thousands of abandoned children have been sent to nightmarish warehouse orphanages where they are injected with HIV-positive blood. One dying infant, Joshua, is given the wrong blood transfusion but flourishes. For American epidemiologist Kate Neuman, this baby represents the medical breakthrough of the century - his immune system may hold the key to curing cancer and AIDS - as well as the gift of a love shes long sought. But Joshuas tiny form also conceals a medical explanation of the ancient scourge of vampirism - and a connection to the legendary Vlad Dracula, who wants the baby back.