Crusader's Torch Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro It is the year 1189 A.D. Atta Olivia Clemens has been living in the city of Tyre for some time, but she dare not remain to face an occupation by Saladin's Islamic forces. Olivia has determined to return to the city of her birth...and her death: Rome, the Eternal. — Yarbro's vampires are benign, rational, civilized beings more worthy of the term '... more »humanity' than many of the mortals they encounter.« less