Count Saint-Germain, the 17th century vampire, travels to Rome to help a vampire friend win a court case over an inheritance. The Inquisition is on, and if the count is discovered, he could finish on the rack.

When a plague destroys the French town the vampire Saint-Germain lives in, he is forced to flee to Europe, where he encounters death, destruction, and accusations of sorcery.

"The vampire Count Saint-Germain protects Americans fleeing persecution--and becomes trapped in a web of betrayal, deceit, and murder in post-WWII Europe. The powerful House Un-American Activities Committee hunted communists both at home and abroad. In the late 1940s, the vampire Count Saint-Germain is caught up in intrigue surrounding a group of Americans who have fled to postwar Paris. Some speak out against HUAC and battle the authorities. Saint-Germain...

"Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's first Saint-Germain novel, Hotel Transylvania, was recently nominated as Vampire Novel of the Century. Her Saint-Germain cycle, now comprised of more than twenty-five books, is a masterwork of historical horror fiction. The vampire Count Saint-Germain has crisscrossed the world many times, seeking love and the blood of life and seeing humanity at its best and worst. In Night Pilgrims, Saint-Germain is living in a monastery...

When both his mentor and lover are threatened by unscrupulous forces, the vampire Saint-Germain finds his attempts to save them compromised by the loss of his fortune, a kidnapping accusation, and a spy who has discovered his true nature.