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| | Amazon.com: States of Grace : A Novel of the Count Saint Germain (St. Germain): Books: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | When the count travels from Italy to the Spanish Netherlands to protect his interests there, he leaves behind his lover, Pier-Ariana Salier, a talented musician and composer, confident that his vast wealth will provide for her; however, an embezzler, a clever spy who discovers Saint-Germain's true nature, has other ideas. |
 | | And the expansion of St. Germain's shipping business makes a lot of sense too - the last decade of the 1400's had seen the inventions of double-entry bookkeeping and marine insurance and the first half of the 16th century was a golden age of expansion for shipping as a result. |
 | | For those new to the series, the brief, basic gist of the concept is this: Saint Germain is a vampire, born (as mentioned earlier) around 2000 BCE, and becoming a vampire at about the age of 35-40. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765313901?v=glance (2544 words) |
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