Abraham's Boys

A woman walking alone to town under the hot California sun is suddenly attacked by a shadowy figure and dragged into the brush.

Nearly two decades after the events of Dracula, Mina Van Helsing (née Murray, formerly Harker) and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing are married and living in the California Central Valley with their two sons, Max and Rudy. The young teens have grown up hearing stories of the dark things which haunt the night, and that they have had to move to ever-more-isolated locations in order to find peace from these terrible creatures. Abraham approaches his oldest son, Max, about his readiness to begin taking part in his father's fight against the darkness, and is tasked with watching his disturbed mother to keep her safe. Max is warned that Mina's mind is connected to the vampiric creatures (a reference to her being Dracula's thrall in the novel) and