Mircea Basarab is a fictional character in The Cassandra Palmer series written by Karen Chance. He was a prince in Romania before he was cursed to be a vampire around 500 years ago. He had two brothers, Radu and Vlad. Mircea and his father were killed by nobles from Wallachia. His father was scalped and he was blinded by having his eyes branded and then he was buried alive. As he had recently been cursed with vampirism he was able to climb his way out of the grave. While he was a new vampire, he fathered a dhampir (half vampire, half human) child. He gave the mother money and left. He didn't know of his child Dorina's existence until after the mother died. He turned his brother Radu and his dying tutor, Horatiu into vampires. When he reached master level, he made a new family by turning humans. He is now the family patriarch and has a very dysfunctional relationship with his dhampir daughter, Dorina.
He met Cassie Palmer when he went to Tony’s on a visit because he is Tony’s sire. He believed she might become the Pythia one day, so when she ran away, he tried to protect her and make sure she wasn't killed. He is a Senate member and the chief negotiator in the North American Vampire Senate.