Austra Family Series by Elaine Bergstrom

This is a reissue of the original book, with the extra sections that had been cut from the original book when it was first published.

In this prequel to Shattered Glass, the Austra family faces the most difficult decision in their history, and take a side during World War II. Hoping for a speedy end to the conflict, they become willing spies for the British, using their mental power to collect information. But an unanticipated event shatters their world and their secrecy. And when one of their own falls into the hands of a Nazi madman, they must use all their powers and all their allies in a daring rescue attempt.

Helen Wells has achieved physical immortality but the artist in her demands jher moments of fame as well. After a series of successful exhibits,she retreats to the wilderness with her lover, Stephen Austra. But their peaceful existence is shattered by a sadistic killer from her past who tears her away from Stephen. With her life threatened, she must draw on powers she has barely learned to use in order to survive.

In 1475, a bloody night of seduction between the vampiric Stephen Austra and a princess of the Bathori family in Romania leads to the birth of a child. Two generations later, the Countess Elizabeth Bathori is born. Beautiful and cruel, she bathed in blood in pursuit if immortality, but few knew the source of her madness – the immortal Catherine Austra, who loved her as she would her own child, and who forged the young countess in her own image.

In the first new novel about the Austra family of vampires in over ten years, two modern-day young lovers find that they must face a deadly enemy, in a dangerous land that both thought they had left behind...