Marked is a straight-forward and compelling story of a young couple living in a world recently besieged by a celestial vampire race. With dramatic weight and tension, their epic struggle for survival - along with six others - forces them into the confines of a theatre basement, hiding from the invaders following the December 2012 apocalypse. A suspenseful thrill ride observed through three narratives - one being a sanctimonious vampire – the journey convenes through the eyes of Alyssa and Seth Fields, twenty-five year old newlyweds living in the coastal setting of Kingston, Rhode Island. Their humble fight to maintain a collective grip on mankind’s everlasting stronghold, hope, is poignantly challenged during their emerging sense of the motive governing the vampires’ intensions.
Alyssa Fields is a target by the merciless, male vampires who wreak destruction, death, and the bloodlust and fertility of selective females. Over eight months of captivity, Alyssa watches in envy as the men in her confined group venture into the nourishment of daylight for sustenance and supplies. Closed-off by the world beyond the concrete walls of her prison, Alyssa feels her mind slipping into an irrevocable state of madness. When Seth convinces the others of his wife’s grave need to venture to the main level of the theatre for a refreshing change of atmosphere it is then when the goals of the vampires come to fruition.
Alyssa is taken by a vampire day-walker, where she is then hidden within the hermetic tunnels of an abandoned state hospital, subjected to physical immorality. For the vampires seek a regal bloodline - immersed undetected, dissolved within man’s existence - to preserve their species from eternal hunger. It is during this intensely pungent turning point when the third narrative is introduced, Taput - the king of the Opir: the vampire species that has surfaced after a century of retreat within the bygone catacombs and tunnel systems of ancient times. The immortal Taput is primordial, sagacious, cavalier, and skillfully cunning with vast physical abilities, one being transfiguration.
When Alyssa inexplicably defies the preconceived notions of female humans, it is then when Taput recognizes his holy grail has lastly been excavated among the mortals. Against her wishes the vampire king marks Alyssa, branding her the Opir elixir of life, and his future queen of the New World Order. Through this human female not only will the Opir’s future be upheld, but a long overdue cleansing of the pious human race will be dealt with, once and for all.
Taput underestimates the human will, man’s ability to overcome diversity when pinned to the wall. He does not know of Seth’s love for Alyssa, or foresee this human’s resolve to find and defend his beloved wife. For Seth and four others comprise a rescue. Anticipating a suicide mission, Seth only truly desires to uncover Alyssa’s fate. What he does discover is profoundly shocking.