Covenant with the vampire

On a grassy knoll in the Carpathians a young man, newly returned from London, stands in a family graveyard. What he sees is an unspeakable desecration, a crime against his father and the family Dracul. In an ancient castle an English journalist disappears, while a young woman awaits the illicit embrace of her great-uncle, Prince Vlad. In a land of superstition and faith, an evil covenant has been kept for four centuries. Now the young man, Arkady Tsepesh, has returned to inherit that pact, to learn the dark truths that will seize his soul and everything he holds dear. A novel that dares to penetrate the myth of the family Dracul by beginning fifty years before Bram Stoker's Dracula. Here is the shattering chronicle of one man's dark heritage, of a family bound by blood, torn by the terrible choices their own evil would demand