The Austra Series
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Shattered Glass, set in the mid-1950s, introduces readers to the magnetic Stephen Austra, a brilliant glassworker and head of a family of immortals. He comes to Cleveland to restore church windows he had created a century before. There he meets Helen Wells, a gifted artist. Their relationship is immediate, intense and passionate but their love places her in terrible danger -- one that Stephen, with all his powers, is unable to control. It has been reissued in a new "author's cut", adding the sections cut from the original manuscript.
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Blood Rites continues the love story of Helen Wells and Stephen Austra. Helen has achieved physical immortality but the artist in her demands her moments of fame as well. After a series of successful exhibits,she retreats to the wilderness with Stephen. But their peaceful existence is shattered by a sadistic killer from her past who tears her away from her family. With her life and that of her children threatened, she must draw on her newborn powers in order to survive.
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Blood Alone, the prequel to Shattered Glass, is set during World War II. Bergstrom's most detailed Austra novel, it is the dual story of young Laurence Austra and his love for Colleen Moore and Paul Stoddard, a jaded young architect in Stephen's employ, who unwittingly finds himself at the center of the Austra family's covert support of the Allies. Read before or after Glass, it merges two intense love stories with espionage and is a page-turning WWII thriller.
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Nocturne, looks at the love affair of young Richard Austra, Stephen and Helen's son, and the brilliant soprano and Romanian refugee Irena Sava. But the young lovers are drawn into battle with an enemy in a land Irena thought she had left behind. This is a must-read before
Beyond Sundown. I will make the PDF available at no charge to those buying a copy of
the new book from me off this site. Just send me your email after you order Beyond Sundown.
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Beyond Sundown, the newest book in the Austra Series, moves from the wilderness of Canada to the mountain in Romania, where the patriarch of the Austra race has lived in seclusion for centuries. But his fate and that of his family lies in the hands of the half-mad Catherine Austra, who plots a terrible revenge on them all -- one that will change the fate of the Austra family and the human race.
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Coming soon to e-books and Kindle,Daughter of the Night, the chilling story of the forbidden passion of Countess Elizabeth Bathori for the half-mad Catherine Austra.
Also available from the author:
Mina ... The Dracula Story Continues -- A feminist sequel to Dracula, highlighting the Mina's life after Dracula was presumably destroyed, and how the dark cravings within her lead her to
believe that the vampire is far from dead.
Limited quantities available from Author via Paypal for $12 (includes shipping)
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Tapestry of Dark Souls -- A Ravenloft novel about a young boy with a deadly
power, torn between the goodness of his mother and the men who raised him
and the evil mage that was his father. Available for $12 (includes shipping.
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Elaine Bergstrom / 2918 S. Wentworth Ave. /Milwaukee, WI 53207
