Peter Hadrian is a tough, smart street cop in Dallas with ties to Romanian medieval history through his heritage; ties that he can't possibly imagine. The tragic and mysterious loss of his son has made him desperate for an answer or an end to life, whichever comes first. He receives a call to assist another officer that will forever change his life. Following a brutal encounter with a man of unfathomable strength, Hadrian is diverted from an ambulance ride to a hospital and taken to a facility at Fort Hood, Texas, belonging to a clandestine governmental agency. Hadrian is genetically reengineered into the perfect weaponless warrior. He soon learns that he has been assigned to an elite team that is being prepared to travel back in time to medieval Romania in order to eliminate the threat of vampirism before this ancient accursed disease threatens to destroy the modern world. The origin is believed to be in Romania with Prince Vlad Tepes, otherwise known to the world by the romanticized name of Dracula. Here in the past, Hadrian will find the answers and possibly even the answer to the fate of his son. Only after an encounter with Boriana, a woman of striking beauty who has been infected with this vamperous condition, is Hadrian sufficiently convinced that he must travel back in time. And with this encounter, the rest is history.