Indiana Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mothers bedside Shes been stricken with something the old-timers call xMilk SicknessxxMy baby boyx she whispers before dyingOnly later will the grieving Abe learn that his mothers fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampireWhen the truth becomes known to young Lincoln he writes in his journal xhenceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion I shall become a master of mind and body And this mastery shall have but one purposex Gifted with his legendary height strength and skill with an ax Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White HouseWhile Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years That is until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than yearsUsing the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth growth and near-death of our nation.
