{"product_id":"the-swordmaster-9781837864188","title":"The Swordmaster","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author, Kate Heartfield, comes a swashbuckling Vampires of Dumas story, featuring a new story arc following Françoise de Montesquiou d'Artagnan, a minor nobleman's daughter who travels to Paris and becomes embroiled in a war between shapeshifters and vampires.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor two days and three nights, Françoise de Montesquiou d'Artagnan has slept, trapped in a strange dream of a shifting world of spirits. Everyone in the dream is clad in the forms of animals, including Françoise herself, and they are discussing secret affairs of monsters and princes - until a host of vampires attacks them in the dream. A man with a beautiful voice faces them down, telling her to run. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrançoise wakes in her grave, buried by her grieving parents and abandoned by her fiancé - and determined to find the man who'd saved her life, identifiable only by his voice. She flees to Paris and finds people like her: the Benandanti, born in their cauls, and blessed with the gift to enter the spirit realm in dreams. She learns that the vampires who attacked her in spirit are a threat in the waking world - and that they sit in the highest positions in the land. Only she and her new brothers and sisters can bring them down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebellion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781837864188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs","brand":"Kate Heartfield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53273373966517,"sku":"9781837864188","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781837864188.jpg?v=1789485351","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-swordmaster-9781837864188","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}