Roman Draganesti

Overview
Roman Draganesti is a 544 year old vampire and coven master of North America. He is the owner of RomaTech Industries, a company which produces the synthetic cloned blood that vampires drink. He is the hero of How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire. Roman is currently the husband of Shanna Whelan.

Early Life
Roman was born in 1461 in Romania. He had two older brothers and one younger sister who died at the age of two. When he was a child, Roman's father sold him to a monastry for a bag of flour. At eighteen he became a monk and traveling healer.

At the age of thirty, when Roman was transformed by Casimir, an evil vampire. Casimir and his coven kept Roman as a pet, amused by corrupting a former man of God. A year later, Casimir presented two children to Roman and told him to kill one to save the other. Roman refused, essentially rebelling, and in retaliation, Casimir destroyed Roman's monastery and killed all the monks, including Roman's father figure. Roman led the the Great Vampire War of 1710 against Casimir and his coven, which Roman won.

RomaTech Industries
Roman founded RomaTech in 1982, White Plains, New York. Five years later, he invented a synthetic cloned blood, effective in giving vampires a food source instead of feeding off of humans. It also doubles as an effective blood transfusions for humans. In 2003, a range of flavoured synethtic blood (Vampire Fusion Cuisine) was introduced, including with Chocoblood, Bubbly Blood, Blood Lite, Blissky, and Bleer. In 2005, Roman discovered a formula to stay awake during the day (Stay-Awake drug). However, it causes a vampire to age one year for each day they use it.

How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Roman met Shanna Whelan after damaging his fang in an accident involving a blood bank sex doll. He urgently required a dentist before his natural healing abilities closed the wound, leaving him a lop-sided eater for all eternity. He rushed to the 24/7 dental clinic where Shanna worked. At the clinic, Roman rescued Shanna from an assassination attempt and brought her back to his apartment for protection from the Russian gang out to kill her. He was going to erase her memory of the incident and let her go, but that became impossible due to her strong psychic powers that resisted his mind control. The two marry a month later. Roman and Shanna began trying for a baby by replacing blank sperm with Roman's DNA. In Vamps in the City, the two discovered she was pregnant with her son, Constantine and two years later followed their daughter, Sophia.

Angus MacKay and Jean-Luc
Angus MacKay and Jean-Luc Echarpe are the two oldest friends of Roman. They were both turned around 1500's, when they would have died on human battlefields. Roman turned them in the war against Casimir.

Gregori Holstein
Gregori Holstein is a close friend and coworker of Roman. He was turned by Roman in 1993, when he would have died after being attacked by Ivan Petrovksy.

The Harem
The harem were the group of ten vampire women that resided in Roman's apartment, as a ancient sign of status as a coven leader. Though they resided in his apartment, they stayed on the lower floors, and Roman never even met the women. The only relationship that the women and Roman shared was a kind of telepathetic vampire sex, in which Roman would imagine them, and they would have the sensation of being touched. By the end of How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire, Roman sent the women away, as the harem upset Shanna. The group of women included Darcy Newhart, Vanda Barkowski and Maggie O’Brian.

MacKay Security and Investigation
MacKay Security and Investigation is a company run by Angus MacKay, based in London and Edinburgh. Roman keeps a team of the MacKay Security team in his New York townhouse apartment. The night time guards are Scottish kilt-wearing, knife-bearing vampires, including Ian MacPhie and Connor Buchanan. The day time guards are humans or shifters, including Carlos Panterra, Phil Jones and Howard Barr.

Personality
Before meeting Shanna, Roman was a tormented and miserable vampire, who believed he was a 'demon from Hell'. Roman felt great remorse for turning as many vampires as he did during the Great Vampire War, as he believes he condemed them to eternal hell.

Being a few hundred years old, and also originally a monk, Roman has very traditional views on relationships and love. Before having sex with Shanna for the first time, he committed himself to her, saying "I'll be a good husband". Shanna loved that about him, her 'sweet, old-fashioned, medieval man'. Afterwards, he admitted that he had never broken his vow of celibacy, and that she was the only woman he'd ever been with, apart from mindsex.

His favorite blood type is Type A Positive.

Physical appearance
Roman has black shoulder-length hair and golden-brown eyes. He appears to be 36 years old, six years older after his consumption of the Stay-Awake serum. His hair was silver at the temples.

First appearance

 * How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire (Love at Stake #1)