Count Dracula: Monarch of Blood

They cut him open to make a weapon. They threw him away when it failed. They were wrong. Magnus Williams had no family and nowhere to go when he signed up for a paid medical trial in the mountains of Romania. He didn’t know the trial was run by the Hellsing Foundation, the secret order that killed Count Dracula in 1897. He didn’t know they had kept the body. And he didn’t know that when the surgeons closed his chest, they left something behind. Declared a failure and dumped in a forest to die, Magnus is found by the vampire lord Cassian Veyr, who turns him into a ghoul. For five years he is a slave in a ruined castle, obeying every command. Then, on the night Veyr orders him to kill the only friend he has left, a second heart beats in his chest. It is a heart that isn’t his. Magnus breaks free, kills his master and drinks his blood. He wakes as something the vampire world has never seen. Each time he drinks from another vampire he grows stronger, and an ancient voice in his blood grows louder. The world he escapes into is a hidden civilization falling apart. More than a century ago the vampires had a king and laws that kept them from killing. Since Dracula died, rival lords have carved his kingdom into warring courts, and vampires and their ghouls are bought and sold like property. Now every court wants what is inside Magnus. Hellsing has sent its best hunter, a young woman whose family was killed by vampires, to bring him back alive or put him down. Magnus wants revenge on the men who made him, and to keep his found family alive. But the further he runs, the clearer one thing becomes. The vampire world doesn’t need another monster. It needs a king. The only question is whether Magnus can become the Dracula they need without becoming the one humanity fears. A dark, modern reimagining of the Dracula legend, full of blood politics, found family and forbidden loyalties, for fans of Twilight, Interview with the Vampire and Castlevania. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Count Dracula: Monarch of Blood — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠