Dracula, 2026

Jonathan Harker flies to the Carpathians to close a real-estate deal. He does not expect to have trouble leaving.His client is a reclusive foreign investor buying up a piece of old Chicago - a Gold Coast mansion, a Prairie Avenue landmark, a cold-storage plant in Back of the Yards nobody thinks twice about. The paperwork is clean. The money is real. What's moving through the refrigerated containers is not what the customs code says it is.By the time Harker's fiancée, Mina, and her closest friend, Lucy Winthrop, understand what has followed the shipment into the city, a young woman is dying by inches with no diagnosis to explain it, and the small circle of people who love her - a psychiatrist, an old Gold Coast fortune, a Texan who won't take no for an answer, and a Dutch physician who arrives at the impossible only because he has run out of possible explanations - are the only thing standing between one very old, very patient man and everything he came to Chicago to build.A modern reckoning with Bram Stoker's classic: what hides easiest in plain sight, and what it costs the people who finally see it.