Wade, Mike and Josh are on a camping trip to celebrate Wade's birthday. The first night they are sitting around the campfire swapping horror stories and urban legends when they are attacked. Within seconds Josh sees his companions brutally murdered while he is taken captive by a rather strange woman, Cassandra. He soon comes to realise that Cassandra is more than strange – she is a vampire and she wants to make him like her so that he can be with her for eternity.

Donovan Reed is the Dark Hunter. A vampire who looks for evidence of vampire attack, captures them and attempts to turn them away from their destructive path. One day he hears how the bodies of two young campers are found, apparently mutilated by wild animals and how a third camper is still missing. Knowing that the corpses were found close to the lair of a known vampire he sets out to find out what is happening and to see if he can find the missing boy.

Captivity is the first in the Darkhour Vampires series and it sets the scene well for future volumes. Donovan Reed has two separate identities. One, Dr Donovan Reed is an eminent psychiatrist who, to the outside world, specialises in treating people with delusions of vampirism. However, this is merely a cover for his true identity, The Dark Hunter. Cassandra, the villain of the piece, is a beautifully written succubus with few, if any, redeeming features. She is unashamedly evil!

If you removed the vampiric theme this would still be a well written murder mystery with the hero trying to track down a kidnap victim before the psychotic killer murders him. Add in the teeth, the taste for blood and a definite dislike of sunlight and you have a cracking good story.

Now the scene is set I look forward to reading more about the Darkhour Vampires.

Synopsis
Vampires were the last thing eighteen-year-old Wade Kain expected when he and his friends went camping in the Oregon woods. After his two friends are brutally murdered, Wade is kidnapped and held captive by a beautiful, but sadistic vampire, Cassandra. Cassandra uses pleasure and pain to seduce Wade, hypnotizing him into believe that he loves her, until one night, when she forces him to join her in an orgy of blood and death. Now, the only thing Wade wants is to escape the fate that awaits him, the horror of becoming a vampire.

When vampire Donovan Reed tries to stop Cassandra's rampage, he finds himself the helpless prisoner of her insanity. The last thing he expected was to find a brave human boy willing to risk everything to help him. Now he has made Wade a promise that he will never become a vampire, a promise that Donovan is determined to keep even if it means going against the other vampires.