The Historian Yang Liye Lydia is like having a built-in

is like having a built-in study companion

' the first in a four-book series

and school memos to reveal the secret past that Bernadette has been hiding for decades

Each step toward the truth takes Ethan further from the world he knows

with her Dutch husband and two young kids in tow

The Historian Yang Liye Lydia is like having a built-inSome stories can be told again in endlessly different ways. Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian combines a search for the historical Dracula with a profound sense that Stoker got some things rightthat the late Mediaeval tyrant kills among us yet, undead and dangerous. From Stoker, she also takes a sense that the supernatural seems more real when embedded in documentary evidence. Three generations search for Dracula's resting place, and their stories are