I can't keep my body from shaking. After all, my world is a world of nice, fairy-looking Salem witches and wizards-not of vampires. I don't like vampires! Maybe I can stand a vampire or two, like Zelda and even the Magician with his bats. But not Dracula. Dracula is scary, and dangerous, and deadly.
The lights around me fade out. It's suddenly getting dark and cold, and I want my mother.
I pass out. After her mother's death, a message scribbled in black calligraphy on a mysterious papyrus invites Marigold-Mary, for short-a ten-year-old apprentice witch from Salem, Massachusetts, to a fantastic country-Rondelia.
Mary's adventures take her to Bookrest's Theater of Vaudeville, to the underground city of vampire kids, and to Dracula's mysterious Castle Bran in Transylvania. She travels to the gypsy spell-casters' Enchanted Forest, back in time to the City of Whispers to find the secret of the Golem, and to the Sapphire Sea and the island of pirates.
But a big surprise awaits Mary at the end of her fantastic adventures, when she finds out that she is more than a Salem witch. She is none other than the long-sought great-granddaughter of Dracula-Maria Dracula.
