In the shadowed heart of 15th-century Wallachia, war is law and betrayal speaks louder than love. Vlad III Dracula-feared prince, ruthless warlord, and legend of blood-rules his fractured land with fire and iron, determined to keep his people free from the encroaching grip of the Ottoman Empire. But his world changes when Ilona Szilágyi, a sharp-witted Hungarian noblewoman and covert spy, is sent to undermine him from within.

Tasked with seducing, studying, and ultimately destroying the so-called monster, Ilona finds herself drawn to the haunted man beneath the blade. What begins as a dangerous courtship turns into a bond neither can deny. As war looms and loyalties fray, their forbidden love ignites amidst political treachery and ancient vengeance.

Torn between her duty to Hungary and her love for Vlad, Ilona must make an impossible choice-betray her heart, or watch him fall to enemies both foreign and within. But when the world comes for the Dragon, it is Ilona who delivers the final blow... and bears the cost of loving a legend fated to burn.