Asylum Hunter

by Erica Orloff

Kate Atwood knows the fortress-like grounds and secret passageways of Silver Hills better than anyone. After all, she grew up there before the family estate was sold and turned into a psychiatric hospital. This is why a hypnotically handsome stranger needs Kate’s help to get inside the facility.

Damian Strauss claims the hospital is a front—the manor is really a haven for the undead, vampires who are locked up by day and let loose to feed at night! And as a dhampir, a vampire hunter, Damian must find a way in—even if it means kidnapping Kate to lead him through the nearly impenetrable maze that leads to the heart of the estate…

5 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

"Erica Orloff is a native New Yorker, novelist, blogger, mother of four, chronic insomniac, alt-rock loving, voracious reader (and prolific writer) who has written over twenty novels across a number of genres and pen names. She currently lives in Virginia where she rarely sleeps, roots for the Yankees and the NY Giants, knits in her almost-never free time, herds worms with her six-year-old Pirate Boy, and tries to hold onto what little sanity she has left." (http://www.ericaorloff.com/about.html)

Reviews

[Helen Vilaranda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good short story! Why? Vampires and dhampirs!