&;A swashbuckling adventure.&; &;Booklist &;A rollicking Indiana Jones flick with a female lead.&; &;BCCB The Last Magician meets A Gentleman&;s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this thrilling, &;breathless&; (Kirkus Reviews) tale filled with magic and set in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains where a girl must hunt down Vlad the Impaler&;s cursed ring in order to save her father.Some legends never die&; Traveling with her treasure-hunting father has always been a dream for Theodora. She&;s read every book in his library, has an impressive knowledge of the world&;s most sought-after relics, and has all the ambition in the world. What she doesn&;t have is her father&;s permission. That honor goes to her father&;s nineteen-year-old protégé&;and once-upon-a-time love of Theodora&;s life&;Huck Gallagher, while Theodora is left to sit alone in her hotel in Istanbul. Until Huck returns from an expedition without her father and enlists Theodora&;s help in rescuing him. Armed with her father&;s travel journal, the reluctant duo learns that her father had been digging up information on a legendary and magical ring that once belonged to Vlad the Impaler&;more widely known as Dracula&;and that it just might be the key to finding him. Journeying into Romania, Theodora and Huck embark on a captivating adventure through Gothic villages and dark castles in the misty Carpathian Mountains to recover the notorious ring. But they aren&;t the only ones who are searching for it. A secretive and dangerous occult society with a powerful link to Vlad the Impaler himself is hunting for it, too. And they will go to any lengths&;including murder&;to possess it.