Sons of the Dragon: Crescent and Cross The Dragon's bloody legacy looms large over his sons. Torn from his family at seven years old, Prince Radu Dracula of Wallachia grows to manhood inside the court of the empire that took everything from him. Trained as a warrior, schooled in two faiths, and forged by a captor's cruelty into something his people may never forgive, he must decide who he is when the world insists on choosing for him. Across the medieval Balkans, the rising Ottoman state has shaped him into one of its own, converted, trained, and marked for life, even as the throne of his birthright still calls him home. He commands the sultan's own janissaries, winning their respect and loyalty on distant battlefields, and buries his grief where no one can find it. But nothing has prepared him for the day he is ordered to bring his own brother home in chains, or in a coffin. In gilded palaces and in a fortress built from a nation's blood, and in the silence of a captive heart that refuses to stop loving, Radu fights for more than a throne. For a homeland that no longer recognizes him, calling him stranger, invader, and puppet, and for the one bond neither empire, nor faith, nor blood itself can ever fully sever. For his family and the survival of the Drăculești name. From the author of The Order of the Dragon novels comes a new series, the Sons of the Dragon trilogy, about the real Dracula family and the origins of the vampire legends of Eastern Europe.
