Austra Family Series by Elaine Bergstrom

Helen Wells, 19, is a gifted painter, struggling to create a legacy before the illness that left her crippled claims her life. Stephen Austra is a brilliant glass artist, and an immortal. When they meet, their passion is immediate and intense. But as their love grows, Dick Wells, Helen's uncle and a homicide expert on the local police department, begins investigating a series of savage murders committed, he is forced to believe, by something not human... moreHelen Wells, 19, is a gifted painter, struggling to create a legacy before the illness that left her crippled claims her life. Stephen Austra is a brilliant glass artist, and an immortal. When they meet, their passion is immediate and intense. But as their love grows, Dick Wells, Helen's uncle and a homicide expert on the local police department, begins investigating a series of savage murders committed, he is forced to believe, by something not human. Soon all three will be drawn into a struggle with a dark presence from Stephen's past, one that lays claim to the life of the woman he loves and one that, for all his power, he is helpless to control. This novel, first published in 1989 to critical acclain is being reissued in a special updated -- and uncut -- version, and includes 12,000 words not found in the original edition. It is the first of 6 books in the Austra series. less

In pre-World War II Europe pursuing a career in the ancient art of glassmaking, Paul Stoddard falls for a beautiful woman who is also a member of a family of vampires, and together they fight against the menace of the Third Reich. Reissue.

Helen Wells resists the dark desires and savage nature of her vampire existence, until a hired killer begins to stalk her family. Reprint.

Famed for her beauty and feared for her cruelty, Elizabeth Bathori continues her quest for immortality, bathing Europe in the blood of her innocent victims, until she meets Catherine Austra, a mysterious creature with the secret to eternity.

In the first new novel about the Austra family of vampires in over ten years, two modern-day young lovers find that they must face a deadly enemy, in a dangerous land that both thought they had left behind...