Abner Marsh is a riverboat captain with nothing left but debts and a battered dream. When wealthy aristocrat Joshua York offers him a fortune to co-captain a magnificent new steamer, Marsh can’t afford to refuse. But York isn’t like other men. Pale, commanding, and secretive, he’s more interested in the mysteries of the night than profits from the river.
As the Fevre Dream cuts through the Mississippi in 1857, Marsh discovers he’s part of a voyage far darker than he imagined. York hides a secret that could save his kind—or doom humanity.
Steeped in atmosphere and menace, George R. R. Martin delivers a vampire tale of ambition, obsession, and survival. On these waters, legends live, nightmares breathe, and monsters wear human faces.
