Granny Viper is a “people
finder,” a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland.
Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight
years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier’s far
border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle - Viper knows she and the girl
can’t cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone.
After making the fatal
mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to
the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert
between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a
race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is - and how
very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are in this illustrated novel.
Dark Horse, paperback, 280
pages, published December 2006