History is penned by the victors—and the legend of Dracula was the lie Van Helsing needed the world to believe.


In the waning days of the 19th century, a crime was buried, but not forgotten, the cold-blooded murder of Transylvanian Prince Vlad Lupescu at the hands of Van Helsing and his conspirators.

Now, deep in the Carpathian shadows, the Voal Negru, a clandestine sisterhood of Dacian priestesses, invoke forbidden rites to summon their prince from the grave. Bound by blood and vengeance, he rises once more to hunt those who betrayed him.

Haunted by the ghost of a fallen soldier, a disgraced US cavalry officer accepts a mysterious commission: protect the widowed Mina Harker as she flees America aboard a ship bound for England. But the voyage soon descends into nightmare, taking him from the storm-lashed Atlantic to the mist-drenched alleys of London, and to a final reckoning in the desolate strongholds of Romania. There, in the ancient heart of Eastern Europe, he must face a legacy of blood—his own, and that of the resurrected Prince.