Years after I had planned to finish the novels about the real father of the figure known to history as Dracula, who was brutal, but not a vampire. The namesake son of Vlad Dracul was truly the inspiration for telling his father's story, as I wondered what the son experienced in his early years in his father's household to shape his formative years. To say a lot would be the understatement of the century! Want to know what I mean? Read the novels, available now.
To defeat monsters, one man must become something even more terrible,
giving rise to a legend and a dreadful curse.
The Order of the Dragon – Book One unfolds in 15th-century Europe, terrorized by brutal wars, cursed by superstition, and divided by religion during the lifetime of Prince Vlad of Wallachia. He struggles to master his destiny and govern the fate of his homeland against forces that would see Christian Europe consumed by darkness. As a younger son raised within royal courts, Vlad lingers in the shadow of others—his elder brother, his father's legacy, and greater princes who view Wallachia as merely another pawn. Until, alongside the capricious Luxembourg king of Hungary, Zsigmond, Vlad gains a knighthood and a new sobriquet: Dracul, meaning the dragon or the devil. His family, friends, lovers, and enemies know him as both.
In a journey from the land of his birth to the decadent and dangerous royal court at Buda Castle, across Europe's oldest medieval cities and fields of carnage where Ottoman forces press westward with scimitar and flame, Vlad must survive the path to power. A bloody road mired in warfare and savagery, littered with more than the corpses of his Turkish enemies. Strange creatures haunt his imagination and his battlefield encounters, phantoms born of war's madness or something far more sinister that stalks the borderlands between the living and the dead. Deceit and betrayal dictate the course of old friendships and holy alliances. From throne rooms to battlefields where Crusaders and Ottomans clash, this is the story of a man who dared to challenge fate itself.
Discover the sacrifices and bold choices Vlad must make in Order of the Dragon – Book One, the first in a series of novels and novellas about the real Dracula family, the House of Basarab.
About Order of the Dragon-Book II
Some oaths are written in blood. Some legacies are born in
darkness.
The Order of the Dragon – Book Two unfolds as a knight of
the Order of the Dragon, Vlad Dracul, a 15th-century Wallachian prince sworn to
defend Christendom navigates a treacherous world of political intrigue, family
betrayal, and the ever-present Ottoman threat. Torn between loyalty to his
people and devotion to his children, Vlad's ambition to reclaim his birthright
leads him down a bloody path, forcing him to make impossible choices and
embrace his ruthless nature. But power often requires sacrifice. When the Turks
demand his young sons as hostages, Vlad faces an agonizing choice that will
echo through history.
As
the crusader armies clash with Ottoman forces along the Danube, Vlad discovers
that survival requires more than political cunning—it demands embracing the
very darkness he once fought against. Vlad must choose between his honor and
his throne, between saving his children and securing his dynasty. Every
decision carves another scar upon his soul, and each victory demands a piece of
his humanity. His choices will not only decide Wallachia's fate but forge the
legend of the most feared name in history—and set his namesake son on a path to
immortal infamy.
Discover the stunning conclusion of Vlad Dracul in Order of the Dragon – Book Two, the second in a series of novels and novellas about the real Dracula family, the House of Basarab.
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