"We'll never know when they came. Did they arrive that night? If so, where had they been before? Were they sleeping, lying dormant somewhere in a nearby cave or in the basement of some old abandoned home, just waiting to awaken and rise again? Either way you cut it, it was Hell on Earth. But this Hell hunted on two legs, and came wrapped in winter's cold." Thus begins the chilling tale of five friends trapped in a snow-bound town whose Colorado Christmas ski trip evolves from a three-day holiday of fun and relaxation into a snare of tragedy and horror when they find themselves surrounded and outnumbered by a horde of savage vampires. Once again as he has in previous novels, Bryan Caulder (who is quickly becoming a frightening storyteller) sets a placid scene, introduces some elements of concern, ratchets up the tension to bone-breaking intensity, and then drenches the reader in an explosive climax so raw you'll barely believe the final blood-soaked pages. A disturbing read from an up-and-coming new writer.