Reluctant Immortals -- Gwendolyn Kiste, Paperback

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature--from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker's Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester's attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre--as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.

Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man's world.

Author: Gwendolyn Kiste
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Published: 08/23/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.36w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781982172350

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/25/2022
Library Journal 06/01/2022 pg. 133
Booklist 07/01/2022 pg. 30