Read It Again Bookstore is excited to welcome Jessica Lévai to our online author series. Join us May 8th at 6pm for a discussion about her new book, You can get your copy of The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse.

Jessica Lévai

Jessica Lévai has loved stories and storytellers for as long as she can remember. After a PhD in Egyptology and eight years as a professor of Anthropology, she dedicated herself to writing full time. She lives near Boston with her husband and two kids.

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The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse

In starry Sternendach, as long as

The vampire Graf has ruled this land

The Heller clan, with weapons strong as

Their wills, have killed his kindred and

Been killed in turn. The two sides nearly

Destroyed themselves. The Graf saw clearly

The need to make the killing cease,

And forced a pact to keep the peace.

The youngest of the Heller faction

Is Kunigunde. Trained to fight

It never suited her aright.

She can’t deny her soul’s attraction

For books and poetry, and for

The Graf, who gave her these and more.

Kunigunde is destined to become the next in a long line of Heller clan vampire hunters—but her soul is drawn to books, poetry, and the vampire Graf. Set in 1960s Europe, The Night Library of Sternendach is an unabashedly melodramatic opera-in-sonnets that weaves a sweeping, suspenseful tale readers won't be able to put down.