Susan R Kagan

Ruxandra, Granddaughter of Vlad the Impaler Susan R Kagan

Privileged medieval town girl Ruxandra Dracula, granddaughter of Vlad the Impaler, dreams of becoming a nun, but her family arranges for her to marry for political gain. She doesn't adjust well to rural life, her new husband Dragomir, or the ghost that began to haunt her during the wedding festivities. Dragomir dies suddenly and mysteriously. The widowed Ruxandra returns to her mother's house until her mother marries her off again to the Moldavian Prince Bogdan III, the One Eyed. For a time, Ruxandra is happy at the Moldavian court until Bogdan pressures her to fulfill all of her wifely duties and disappoints her in other ways. Bogdan also dies under mysterious circumstances. How did Ruxandra lose two husbands? What will happen to her next?