I don't recall the novel or the author, which would be unusual for me (although not unheard of). Are you sure that's one of my recommendations? The C.Q. Yarbro, sure, figured you might like her and her historical "horror" (it isn't ) series, or at least the part of the series that's past the first few books. She started off in a significantly different direction, and it took her a few novels to completely divest her characters and their world of the effects of that early misstep.
It's "a little" past the romance line for me, but the many of the plots, storylines, and settings are decent - and she appears to have done the research for every era and location that she used. I recall enjoying Out of the House of Life, which was kind of a partial history of St. Germain, and could probably be usefully read at any point in the series (maybe the earlier, the better). Especially since she jumped all over hither and yon when writing her books. One might be in Rome in 212 AD and the next might be in Austria in 1917.
The only "horror" aspects to the thing are that he's a vampire. And that one of the two manservants that he has had was a ghoul born centuries ago in Gades (what is now Cádiz, Spain), I suppose.
I don't recall the novel or the author, which would be unusual for me (although not unheard of). Are you sure that's one of my recommendations? The C.Q. Yarbro, sure, figured you might like her and her historical "horror" (it isn't
It's "a little" past the romance line for me, but the many of the plots, storylines, and settings are decent - and she appears to have done the research for every era and location that she used. I recall enjoying Out of the House of Life, which was kind of a partial history of St. Germain, and could probably be usefully read at any point in the series (maybe the earlier, the better). Especially since she jumped all over hither and yon when writing her books. One might be in Rome in 212 AD and the next might be in Austria in 1917.
The only "horror" aspects to the thing are that he's a vampire. And that one of the two manservants that he has had was a ghoul born centuries ago in Gades (what is now Cádiz, Spain), I suppose.
Regards,
~TS~