Amanda Gatrel

Taken: Immortals After Dark #1 (Volume 1) Amanda Gatrel

Shelby, an adventurous young girl was kidnapped from her yard one beautiful spring day while she was innocently playing outside. She was held captive for years in the basement of THE SURGEON. The Surgeon is a sadistic serial killer who performs agonizing surgeries on his mostly young, female, captors in a makeshift operating room in his basement. No one had ever managed to escape, until her. Her dramatic and gut-wrenching testimony puts The Surgeon on Death Row. However, she is still stalked and harassed by the hundreds of twisted followers of The Surgeon. She conquers her demons, changes her name and becomes a homicide detective. One night, while saving a fellow detective's life; she realizes that he is not normal. Hell, he isn't even human! He is a vampire. Her world is once again violently torn upside down. Now, this vampire may be the only one capable of saving her from her terrifying past as it comes back and tries to claim her, again!