Dapitan, 1893. DR. JOSÉ RIZAL thought exile meant peace and quiet—until his prized student vanished, and whispers began circling about a soil merchant in a manse on the hill. Rizal follows the trail into a nightmare older than the colony itself. Now the exiled revolutionary must confront an impossible horror—elegant, ancient, and very, very hungry. THE INDIO & THE IMPALER is a blood-soaked collision of gothic horror and Philippine history, where the greatest mind of the islands pits himself against the Prince of Darkness—COUNT DRACULA.