Saint Germain Books in Order

In eighteenth-century Paris, the wealthy Count Saint-Germain conceals his ancient existence as a vampire beneath an aristocratic identity. His attachment to young Madelaine de Montalia draws him into a struggle against Satanists intent on destroying her.

In Renaissance Florence, vampire Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano abandons isolation after falling for Estasia, a relative of Botticelli. Their growing connection faces the threat of Savonarola, whose religious campaign endangers suspected heretics and the city's artistic life.

During Nero's reign, the immortal Saint-Germain moves through Rome's volatile political world and becomes involved with Atta Olivia Clemens. Their relationship places intimate desires beside the brutality and instability surrounding them in an empire shaped by violence.

In thirteenth-century China, Saint-Germain allies with warrior T'en Chih-Yu as Jenghiz Khan's forces threaten her people. His concealed vampirism complicates their bond, bringing the prospect of eternal life into a struggle against the dangers of war.

Saint-Germain becomes guardian to a Russian war orphan amid revolution and the aftermath of World War I. Traveling across Europe with his adopted daughter, he encounters women whose attachments and dangers test his immortality, including his fellow vampire Madelaine.

This collection follows the vampire Count Saint-Germain through adventures in different historical periods, extending his story into the modern United States. It includes The Spider Glass, a tale linking the immortal aristocrat to a disturbing antique Venetian mirror.

Shipwrecked on the Baltic coast in 937, Saint-Germain is rescued by Ranegonda, who governs a Saxon fortress for her absent brother. Her gift of blood sustains him, while love develops amid the tensions surrounding her unusual authority.

Sent by Poland's king to the court of Ivan IV, Count Saint-Germain uses his alchemical talents to create extraordinary jewels. Russia's dangerous politics and the emperor's volatility threaten him, while an unexpected romantic attachment draws him deeper into court intrigue.

Count Saint-Germain travels to seventeenth-century Peru, where a relationship with an Incan priestess offers relief from his enduring loneliness. Spanish conquest and the Inquisition threaten the world around them, bringing particular danger to a vampire whose nature must remain hidden.

On the eve of World War I, Russia's czar enlists Saint-Germain to help preserve peace in Europe. His efforts to restrain the arms race provoke a ruthless weapons merchant, threatening both the vampire's secrecy and a young artist he loves.

Saint-Germain has gained uneasy acceptance in a fourteenth-century French village through his generosity, despite being a foreigner. When the Black Death arrives, fear turns against outsiders, forcing him to flee into a wider landscape of plague and suspicion.

In seventeenth-century Rome, Saint-Germain defends his friend Niklos's inheritance against a claimant backed by powerful church figures. Sheltering a woman fleeing an arranged marriage creates further enemies, forcing the vampire to navigate legal conflict, religious authority, and dangerous personal loyalties.

Saint-Germain turns Csimenae into a vampire in medieval Spain, but her ruthless hunting and careless creation of others endanger their kind. Across centuries of religious conflict and war, he must decide how to protect a clan whose behavior exposes it.

In fourteenth-century India, Saint-Germain is caught in the devastation of Timur's invasion and the sack of Delhi. A female acrobat offers help, but captivity, escape, and the vulnerabilities of his vampire existence complicate their struggle through a shattered landscape.

Summoned to Charlemagne's court, Saint-Germain attracts admiration and envy through his learning and unusual principles. Escorting a young woman with controversial stigmata to Rome brings companionship, but also exposes them both to powerful enemies and competing judgments about her nature.

Saint-Germain flees Spain on the eve of civil war and travels through Depression-era America toward San Francisco. Reuniting with an old lover offers comfort, but violent extremists, attacks on friends, and an assassin from Europe threaten his refuge.

A massive eruption plunges the sixth-century world into darkness, hunger, disease, and fear of outsiders. Saint-Germain flees west with a nomadic tribe, seeking sanctuary while exposure, betrayal, and loss threaten the necessities that keep his vampire existence possible.

Saint-Germain's publishing interests place him under scrutiny during Europe's religious conflicts in 1530. Leaving Venice to protect his business in the Netherlands exposes both his livelihood and the musician he loves to espionage, embezzlement, and threats to his hidden identity.

In a corrupt and unstable Rome, Saint-Germain draws the hostility of an official whose extortion he resists. Protecting vulnerable friends and a courtesan keeps him tied to the city as surveillance, religious tension, and accusations threaten his survival.

Living in Switzerland after the Napoleonic wars, Saint-Germain comforts a widow separated from her children and investigates an Austrian nobleman's research into blood. The nobleman's ward develops a dangerous fixation on him, threatening the peace he and his lover share.

These shorter Saint-Germain stories follow the vampire through historical encounters that test his resourcefulness and understanding of people. Pirates, a monastery, a dying widow, and the complications of teaching alchemy place his unusual life against mortal needs and dangers.

Saint-Germain travels to Russia under Peter the Great, posing as a diplomat and the husband of a fellow spy. Harsh conditions and dangerous intrigue complicate his efforts to assist those around him while preserving the secret of his vampire identity.

As the Huns threaten the Carpathians in 438, Saint-Germain joins refugees seeking safety at a monastery. His relationship with Nicoris offers companionship during the crisis, but the woman carries a secret that may place their shared future in danger.

Saint-Germain becomes a virtual prisoner at a Bohemian queen's court, making jewels while trying to avoid its intrigues. An ambitious lady-in-waiting uses the threat of religious persecution to blackmail him, turning courtly attention into a threat to his very existence.

Learning that Madelaine de Montalia faces execution by France's Revolutionary Tribunal, Saint-Germain enters the country with a troupe of actors. His attempt to rescue her becomes entangled with a new lover, jealousy, and political fervor that threaten his mission.

Saint-Germain guides pilgrims through southern Egypt toward underground churches, finding companionship with a widow troubled by religious guilt. The travelers' visions, ambitions, and desires intensify their quarrels, forcing him to prevent a holy journey from becoming deadly conflict.

In postwar Europe, Saint-Germain protects Americans escaping persecution, only to become entangled in deceit and murder. His efforts to provide refuge place the vampire among people whose hidden loyalties and betrayals threaten the safety he hopes to offer.