Vlad, Son of the Dragon

By Laurence Dragan

He can survive the Sultan's army. He may not survive the story his enemies tell.

Wallachia, 1462.

Vlad Drăculea was raised as an Ottoman hostage, educated among the men he would one day fight. Now Sultan Mehmed II is marching north, and Vlad must defend a small principality trapped between an empire, a calculating Hungarian king, and Saxon merchants who control the roads, the silver, and the news.

Two wars are about to begin.

One will be fought with cavalry, ambushes, poisoned wells, and terror.

The other will be fought with letters, testimony, forged documents, and ink.

As Vlad prepares Wallachia for an invasion it cannot hope to survive, every victory demands a greater cruelty. Every cruelty travels farther than the battle that caused it. In royal courts, merchant houses, monasteries, and printing workshops, his enemies begin turning a ruler into a monster while he is still alive.

Beside him stand Meryem, an Ottoman woman whose loyalties cross forbidden borders; Radu, Vlad's brother and Mehmed's favoured prince; and Matthes, a Saxon scribe who discovers that a story can conquer what an army cannot.

Told through Vlad's final confession and the eyes of a man helping to manufacture his legend, Vlad, Son of the Dragon enters the violent world behind the name Dracula: a world of hostage princes, divided brothers, imperial ambition, forbidden loyalties, and political fear.

This is not the story of a supernatural monster.

It is the story of a man who learned to use terror as a weapon-and of the enemies who made that terror immortal.

A sweeping historical novel of war, brotherhood, power, and the birth of propaganda.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HC3SJKW4
• ISBN13: 9798189402395
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"