A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh s dilapidated fleet; nor does he care that he won t earn back his investment in a decade. York s reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be none of Marsh s concern no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious York s actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare and humankind s most impossible dream. "