The Captive Books in Order
Part ofBrenda K Davies Books in OrderFind The Captive series by Brenda K Davies in order, with book summaries, world and character background, and advice on how to read the related spin-offs and bonus stories.
Last updated: December 26, 2025
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Publication Order
8 books
Broken
by Brenda K Davies
2020
Scarred by years of captivity and loss, a survivor of the royal courts has no intention of trusting another vampire. When circumstances force her to rely on someone tied to the very family that hurt her, she must decide whether healing is possible.
Vengeance
by Brenda K Davies
2016
Years after the initial rebellion, a new generation confronts the lingering sins of the vampire kingdom. When tragedy strikes, vengeance drives them back into conflict, proving that freedom is harder to keep than it was to win.
Unbound
by Brenda K Davies
2016
The chains of the old regime may be gone, but hidden loyalties and secret plots still bind humans and vampires. A reluctant pair must uncover the truth and decide whether they will cling to old grudges or fight for a different future.
Redemption
by Brenda K Davies
2014
In the aftermath of war, old enemies and new wounds threaten the fragile peace Aria and Braith fought to build. As fresh dangers rise, the survivors must decide whether forgiveness is possible or whether vengeance will destroy everything left.
Salvation
by Brenda K Davies
2013
With rebellion on the brink of exploding, Braith is torn between rescuing Aria and leading the uprising he was born for. Aria faces her own impossible choices as love, loyalty, and freedom pull her in different directions.
Renegade
by Brenda K Davies
2012
Free of the palace at last, Aria is still haunted by Braith’s betrayal and the horrors of life as a blood slave. Hiding with the rebels, she focuses on survival until a vampire raid and Braith’s sudden return force her to face both the war and her shattered heart.
Refugee
by Brenda K Davies
2012
Determined to find powerful allies against his tyrant father, Braith leads Aria and the rebels into the terrifying land known as the Barrens. What they discover there could tip the war in their favor or tear their fragile relationship apart.
Captured
by Brenda K Davies
2012
Aria is torn from her family and branded a rebel before being dragged to a vampire palace where human blood slaves rarely live long. Claimed by Prince Braith instead of executed, she must hide her true loyalties while fighting an unwanted, growing attraction to her captor.
Series background & context
The Captive series, written as Erica Stevens, is a vampire dystopia where humans have been reduced to servants and blood slaves under a ruthless vampire monarchy. Rebellion simmers in the shadows, but most people are too afraid or broken to fight.
Captured introduces Aria, a human rebel taken from the forests and thrown into a prison wagon. She expects torture or death, and her worst fear is being chosen as a blood slave for one of the ruling vampires. Keeping her true role in the rebellion hidden is the only way she knows to protect those she loves.
Her fate changes when Braith, a blind vampire prince from the brutal royal family, claims her. Aria is determined to hate him, but his unexpected kindness and flashes of vulnerability do not fit the stories she has heard. Their dangerous connection becomes the spark that lights a much larger uprising.
Across Renegade, Refugee, and Salvation, Aria and Braith are torn apart and reunited against a backdrop of caves full of rebels, inhospitable lands like the Barrens, and a war to overthrow the king. Later books such as Redemption, Vengeance, Unbound, and Broken follow new and returning characters as they deal with the aftermath of revolution and the lingering scars of slavery.
The series is packed with high stakes escapes, secret identities, and intense emotional swings. It asks what freedom means after a lifetime in chains and whether love between conqueror and captive can survive when the balance of power finally shifts.
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