Dracula (Kiersten White) Books in Order

Kiersten White's Dracula-inspired story begins with a question that sits at the edge of Bram Stoker's original novel: what happened to Lucy Westenra after everyone else decided her story was over? In Lucy Undying, White takes one of Dracula's first victims and makes her the center of a long, dangerous gothic fantasy.

Lucy was once a young woman surrounded by suitors, expectations, and people eager to speak for her. After Dracula attacks her, she rises as a vampire and spends the next century trying to escape his influence. Immortality gives her time, power, and freedom, but it does not make her past disappear.

The novel moves through different periods of Lucy's life before bringing her to present-day London. There, she meets Iris, a young woman whose wealthy family runs a powerful health business built on secrets. Iris is also caught in a life shaped by other people's plans, so her connection with Lucy becomes both a romance and a chance for each woman to imagine a different future.

Dracula has not forgotten Lucy.

The book uses the vampire myth for a story about survival, autonomy, desire, and the ways old harm can keep reaching into the present. Lucy is not a passive symbol of tragedy here. She has been a victim, a hunter, an adventurer, and someone who has made painful choices to stay alive. Her relationship with Iris gives the story warmth and tension, especially as Iris's family and Dracula himself become threats.

Readers do not need to have recently read Dracula to follow the plot. Knowing the original can add another layer, since White plays with its characters and assumptions, but Lucy Undying is designed as its own complete story. It is a gothic romance with blood, danger, revenge, family secrets, and a heroine trying to claim a life that was taken from her.

Expect a darker, more adult take on vampire fiction than the author's YA paranormal books. The story is interested in what it means to outlive the version of yourself that others wanted, and whether love can remain possible after a century of loss.

Start with Lucy Undying. It stands alone, while opening up a fresh perspective on one of horror's most familiar stories.