Novelist Sara Swann Turns Count Dracula’s Origin Story Upside-Down in “Defender of the Faith,” the First Volume in her new “The Drăculeşti Dynasty” Series
Amazon.com bestselling author Sara Swann is celebrating her latest novel, Defender of the Faith, which released to retail September 12, 2024, in hardback, trade paperback, and all major ebook formats from WordCrafts Press. The highly anticipated first volume in The Drăculeşti Dynasty Series tells a far different tale of the origin story of the man destined to be remembered by the world as Count Dracula. The new version is resonating with fans as the paperback version debuted at #13 on Amazon.com’s Hot New Releases chart in the Medieval Historical Fiction category, and the ebook took up residence at the #32 position in the same category as well as landing at #78 in Hot New Releases in the Historical European Fiction category.
Within every man is a culmination of his boyhood. So it is with young Vlad Dracul, House of Drăculeşti, born into royalty in a three-story stone house around 1431 in Sighișoara, Transylvania, on the forefront of the epic religious battle between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire.
The Turks sought world domination.
A one-man wall stood between them and the whole of Christian Europe.
Vlad the Impaler
House of Drăculeşti
Defender of the Faith.
