Bloodstock

Tricked into giving his word by a dishonorable man's maneuvering, Prince Szigismond Emre Janos Rackoszi, Viceroy of Transylvania, is honor-bound to marry a woman he doesn't love. He's also required to gather to the bosom of his family the man's widow, and mother of his intended, who despises him. The silly creature believes he's a revenant, a vampire bent on making her daughter one as well, and she vows to see him staked and in his grave before she gives her daughter to him. But the prince ...