Yeah...and I'd disregard the Vampire Counts trilogy. Poorly written, distant from the official fluff, and just generally *bleh*. Makes the evil vampires into little more than one-dimensional "ooh, that's the next bad guy" characters and generally takes all the interest out of the story. A one-legged peasant could have stolen Vlad's ring, vamps don't know their own dungeons, and that same peasant could have whacked Manfred. Plus, the book clearly doesn't consider that whole issue about Manfred being back in the current storyline. Quite a letdown, especially after reading Genevieve.