Fevre Dream

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something'
s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn'
t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh'
s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won'
t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh'
s concern--no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove.
Marsh meant to turn down York'
s offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolve--coupled with the terrible force of York'
s mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind'
s most impossible dream.
Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire'
s quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman'
s dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river.