Captured by Erica Stevens

Genre: Adult Fiction, eBook, 470 pages

The only daughter of a man who is head of a clan in the woods is taken from her home during a raid by vampires. Her identity is unknown to the vampires and she gets locked up in a cage with other humans from her land. while awaiting to be auctioned off, she ponders her fate and hopes hers will be a quick killing at the hand of whoever buys her and not that of a blood slave. She would rather face death than be one of those.

One by one they are picked up and taken to a stage where they are bid for by blood thirsty vampires. when it gets to her turn, she is bought by a old man but they are halted in getting off the stage by a man who she later learns is the first son of the ruler of the vampires. From the way her new owner bows and hands her over quickly to him at his request, she guesses he is someone important. the old man is paid his money back and her new buyer leads her away. Out of the chatter of the maids whom he had come to clean her up, she learns his name is Braith and is the first son of the ruler of the vampires.
Washed and dressed in the most luxurious clothes she has ever worn, she is taken before the prince. Although he is tall, terribly attractive with a commanding presence and a fearsome wolf by his side always, she feels nothing but hate for the man who she is sure wants to keep her as a blood slave. A meal like nothing she has ever seen is brought in and in she can't help but think that the platter with its meat and fruits and vegetables would have fed all the humans that were in the cave with her earlier. Days and weeks pass and she soon grows restless with her new life of being locked up, with regular meals sent up and maids to bathe her and change her clothes.

Wandering around the palace one day, she stumbles upon the prince's library and he offers to teach her to read when she admits she can only do so limitedly. she grows confused about Braith's intentions as he treats her with kindness, and has never demanded anything of her. This was a far cry from the cruelty she had expected to meet. She often found herself yearning for his company on the days when he did not show up at her dinner time as was now usual. Not so surprisingly, she discovers she has an affection for Braith, and she chalks this up to the fact he has been nothing but kind to her and her only companion so far.

Braith finds himself struggling with a passion so strong for Arianna, he cannot understand why she affects him the way she does. She does not fall into the type of women he usually went for; curvy and elegant. Arianna was boyish and slim but the more he spent time with her, the more he found her irresistible and sensual. His longing for her was growing stronger by the day and he dreaded the day when he would have to have her killed as they do with blood slaves who had outlived their usefulness. Right now he couldn't even bring himself to feed from her without her consent. He wanted her to be willing and give herself to him freely.the strength of his feelings for her staggered him and he knew he would protect her from his people no matter what it took.

A shocker arises when Braith's long gone brother; Jericho, who was sent to spy on a human camp in the forest shows up. she recognizes him as Jack who was a trusted friend of her father's and the camp's back in their land. he reveals to her and Braith that he successfully infiltrated their camp but had gotten too involved and was sent by father to rescue her and take her back home. Arianna escapes with him after he convinces her that Braith has a fiance and could not possibly have any future with her, a human. heartbroken and angry, she escapes with him.




I love vampire stories and this had me going from the first chapter. Very well told story, and I really hope the author writes a sequel soon enough.