Royce McCulloch loves his fiancée but wishes that she were a little more generously endowed. When she dies as a result of a botched "boob-job" and his best friend apparently overdoses Royce heads away from Los Angeles to start a new life.

Years later he is a successful businessman with a respectable job, a beautiful wife and a stepson. Quite the pillar of the community. He has a new career helping to promote small businesses. Everything seems perfect. One day, he is approached by an unusual new client, businesswoman Monica Pleshette who wants Royce to help promote her "adult-lingerie" company. Soon he finds that Monica and her psychopathic vampire boyfriend Cliff are intent on destroying his perfect world.

Suddenly Royce finds his family threatened by demons from his past life. Only he can save them.

The Reckoning is a nasty little tale of vampirism, S&M, drugs and Rock & Roll (well, maybe not the last one but hey, it seemed to fit!). Royce has tried to escape his rather sordid past and has created a new life with a family who know nothing of the man he used to be. Suddenly, out of the woodwork crawl Monica and Cliff who seem determined to destroy his new life as payment for the pain he has caused in the past.

This is not a novel for anyone of a sensitive nature. There are some reasonably explicit scenes of a sadistic sexual nature as well as some fairly graphic violence. However these scenes are by no means gratuitous. On the contrary, they serve to bring a realistic texture to a world of sickness and depravity the characters inhabit.

Dan Thomas is a skilled teller of tales. You can feel the increasing desperation in Royce McCulloch as he searches for a way to protect his wife and stepson from the echoes of his past. As a contrast the characters of Monica and Cliff are so seedy they practically ooze from the pages of the book.

In The Reckoning Dan Thomas has written a story that left me feeling uncomfortable and rather grubby. This is the sign of a skilled wordsmith as I am no newcomer to the world of vampire horror.

Synopsis
Bad karma kickback...from beyond the grave!

His fiancée dead from a botched "boob job," his buddy dying from a drug overdose, Royce McCulloch jumps into his Porsche, speeds east out of Los Angeles and never looks back.

Now, ten years later, Royce has re-invented himself as a civic-minded Baltimore business leader and  stalwart family man. The ex-junk bond promoter has a rewarding job helping minority entrepreneurs establish themselves, and a loving wife and stepson. Royce thought it was smooth sailing, until Monica Pleshette, a well-endowed, flesh-eating female zombie and Cliff Wells, her psychopathic boyfriend turned Hollywood vampire, invade Royce's smug life and threaten his life and family.

Suddenly Royce's sleazy past catches up with him, and he must defend his family against demons who will stop at nothing to destroy the people he loves--and drag him back to hell with them. It's playtime in the erotic and deadly arena of the undead, and a bloody reckoning is at hand.