Sons of the Dragon: The Bastard Prince
The Dragon's blood runs true, even in the son he left behind.
A monk spent thirty years making himself invisible. Raised in a monastery, trained in silence, shaped by absence, the illegitimate firstborn son of the Dragon of Wallachia has one skill perfected above all others: wanting nothing. It has kept him alive, hidden, and safe.
When a chance encounter in a plague-ravaged camp leaves him haunted by what he witnessed and complicit in what he could not prevent, the life he built from silence unravels. Hunted by the agents of a dying dynasty, he sought the priesthood only to find himself caught up in the turbulent life of a half-brother whose capacity for violence and love exist in equal and terrifying measure. Tormented by feelings for a grieving widow he has no right, as a man of God, to want, he discovers that the blood of the Dragon will not stay buried, no matter how long or how carefully it has been hidden.
Across the treacherous courts of Transylvania and the blood-soaked fields of Wallachia, through the confession of a man who impaled his enemies by the thousands, Vlad Calugarul must confront the question their father left unanswered when he rode away thirty years ago. What does it mean to be the Dragon's son when survival demanded invisibility?
He was the son nobody counted. He was the last one standing.
From the author of The Order of the Dragon novels and the Sons of the Dragon trilogy comes the last word on the real Dracula family, and the man no one expected would determine the destiny of a dynasty and his nation.
