Are they saving a prince, or unchaining a monster?
December, 1476. The infamous Vlad the Impaler – Dracula – is reported killed in a Turkish ambush. The brutal scourge of the Ottomans is no more…
November, 1485. Nine years later, mysterious Hungarian noblewoman Maria Hunyadi lays a quest at the feet of Sir John Hawker, loyal retainer to the fallen King Richard III and protector of Richard’s illegitimate son, Sir Giles Ellingham.
The mission: to liberate her father from imprisonment in a remote Wallachian mountain fortress. The prisoner: Vlad Dracula.
Indebted to Maria for saving his men’s lives in Venice, Hawker reluctantly accepts her story and agrees to come to her aid.
But any rescue will be fraught with danger. There are powerful forces at work who would not want the great warlord found alive.
And is Maria really who she says she is? Is she looking for more than just her father? And is the Impaler truly alive, after all this time – a lost prince?
The Lost Prince by Ethan Bale is published on 6 July, 2023. It’s the second book in his Swords of the White Rose series.
Ethan examines the man behind the legend in The real Dracula: monster by nature — or nurture?
