[The Diaries of the Family Dracul 02] • Les enfants du vampire

It is Amsterdam, 1871, twenty-five years before the start of Stoker's novel,

and twenty-five years following Arkady Tsepesh's flight from his family's

ancestral castle with his wife and young son, Stefan, after learning that he

and his family are bound by an ancient covenant to serve their ancestor,

Prince Vlad Tsepesh, who is also known as Dracula. For Vlad is a vampire, and

the fated firstborn sons in every generation must bring him the victims he

needs to survive. Arkady had tried to break the covenant and failed. He is now

a vampire, separated from his beloved wife and son, with one all-consuming

desire - to destroy Vlad before he draws Stefan into eternal service through

the blood ritual. But Arkady has come too late to Amsterdam. Vlad kidnaps

Stefan, and spirits him away to the castle in Transylvania to undergo the

blood ritual. Arkady enlists the help of Stefan's stepbrother, Abraham Van

Helsing, in his thrilling battle against Vlad, as he seeks to free his family

and put an end to the age-old blood covenant - even if it means he must

destroy his own son.