Out of the shadows of myth an ancient horror invades lesbian Europe, seeking fresh female flesh with which to fulfil his dark dreams of dominance and empire. Only a handful of women stand between the monster and his final victory, and as time runs short they must risk all in a desperate game with their own bodies for dice. Dracula rises again, and again, in Wendy Swanscombe' s "Fresh Flesh,"

Fleeing the gathering storm-clouds of war in 1939, a party of British debutantes are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island where they meet a distinguished French scientist claiming descent from the Marquis de Sade. But who is the Marquis de Sade? And what devil's brew is his great-grandson cooking far from the eyes of the world? Does he mean to use his beautiful and not wholly unexpected young guests as ingredients?