Bathed in Blood

Set in sixteenth-century Transylvania, Bathed in Blood: The Transfiguration of Ruxandra cel Rău tells the story of the flight of Mihnea, son of Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, to Sibiu and the fate he and his family meet at the hands of the vampire Dimitrije Iaxici. It’s not just the monster that would become Jack the Ripper that is unleased upon the world but someone, something, far, far worse… his daughter, Ruxandra cel Rău. Bathed in Blood is a short story (circa 15,000 words) prequel to O’Connell’s full length novel The Whitechapel Vampire.