 
A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
  
 Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s  amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative  offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn’t care that  the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated  fleet; nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a  decade. York’s reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be  none of Marsh’s concern—no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious  York’s actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does  Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and  perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare—and humankind’s  most impossible dream.