Ready for the cover reveals of the Sons of the Dragon novellas?

All three covers of the Sons of the Dragon novellas are ready. My cover artist, Mirella Patzer, did a stellar job as usual. It helps that we've known each other over 20 years and I trust her instincts more than most. She reworked the first cover, which I debuted last month, to tonally match the rest of the series.

BLOOD AND IRON (Book 1) - The Wolf

Mircea Dracula, barely fourteen when he first commanded men in battle. By nineteen, he'd fought crusaders, survived exile, and loved impossibly. His foes called him a brutal warrior. History forgot him entirely. Until now. His totem: the wolf: predator, protector, and the symbol of the Ottoman threat his father fought to keep at bay.

CRESCENT AND CROSS (Book 2) - The Nightingale

Radu Dracula spent thirty years in Turkish captivity. He converted and commanded armies, returning to the land of his forefathers as a stranger among his people. The Ottomans called him "the Handsome." History called him traitor. The truth is far more complicated. His totem: the nightingale: beautiful, caged, singing in darkness. The captive who became a conqueror. 

THE BASTARD PRINCE (Book 3) - The Dove

Vlad Călugărul. A bastard, the overlooked son, the one who chose the monastery instead of a bloody legacy. For thirty years, he mourned as his brothers destroyed each other. Then destiny found him anyway. His totem: the dove: the peace and transcendence of the brother who must lead his shattered family towards its ultimate destiny. 

Before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, a father and his sons bore names that became synonymous with brutal stories whispered in the night. The children of Vlad II Dracul, prince of Wallachia and a knight of the Order of the Dragon. His sons could not escape his dark legacy, caught between empires battling for control of Europe. Perhaps the entire world. These are their stories, told with historical accuracy and unflinching emotional truth.

Three brothers walked three separate paths through history and forged one legacy that became legend.

 SONS OF THE DRAGON - Coming June 16, 2026, in e-book format and June 30, 2026, in paperback.

Sons of the Dragon: Blood and Iron cover reveal

I'm so thrilled to share the cover of the first in my continuing series about the Dracula family, one of history's most fascinating and misunderstood dynasties.

Coming June 2026

Everyone knows the name Dracula, which history and myth assigned to Vlad III, namesake of Vlad II Dracul, the Dragon of Wallachia, my protagonist in Order of the Dragon. Did you know the name “Dracula” is a cognomen of “Dracul,” meaning “the son of?” And what do you know about Mircea Dracula?

Before Vlad III became legendary, even immortalized in Bram Stoker’s work, Dracula, there was his elder brother Mircea Dracula, the firstborn legitimate son of Vlad II. Blood and Iron is Mircea’s story. Spanning six turbulent years of his youth, the narrative portrays how he became a warrior in the shadow of Ottoman invasions, treachery among noblemen, and a father who faced impossible choices. Mircea’s experiences were much the same as a young commander caught up in wild carnage against the Turks at Varna in 1444, and battling alongside Burgundian and Venetian crusaders in the search for a lost king.

This is medieval Wallachia or modern-day Romania, as you've never seen it. Not the gothic horror of Bram Stoker's imagination, but the brutal, breathtaking reality of a family trying to survive at the crossroads of Christendom and empire.

Blood and Iron is the first of three novellas in the new Sons of Dragon series. Each story follows one of Vlad II Dracul's sons: Mircea and Radu Dracula, and the one history would call Vlad the Monk. Three brothers. Three fates. One legacy forged in blood and iron, and bound to the destiny of their sibling Vlad III, whom myth and history have deemed the most ruthless of the Dracula family. But he wasn’t alone in his savagery.

More details on official release dates in June 2026 and where to find the novellas are coming soon. Thank you, as always, for your interest. It means everything.