The Violin

Patrick and Richard Austra were born immortal. Home schooled, they get their first experience with their peers in high school. Richard is the careful one, but Patrick likes his life more interesting. Just 15, he's is learning to hide his differences from the human world, beginning to accept his homosexuality, weighing an affair with a brilliant young violinist, and attracting the attention of the school bully -- a boy with terrible secrets of his own. This novella is an addition to the Austra Vampire Series, which began with the novel Shattered Glass, which garnered critical acclaim when published in 1987. Author Elaine Bergstrom also wrote Mina...the Dracula Story Continues under the pseudonym Maria Kiraly.