Me and Antonia said we'd be best friends forever.
I never expected to take it literally...
Sarcastic schoolgirl Louisa Green was pretty normal - she went to school, she did exams, she almost died of boredom in the sleepy town of Rydon where nothing ever happened. Ever.
Period.
Until that October, when Louisa suddenly finds herself in the midst of a centuries-old fight between two vampire brothers that seem to have something to do with her best friend Antonia, who really isn't herself...
If that wasn't enough, she and Antonia's brother Simon uncover a community of creatures that claim to be distant cousins of the werewolf. With their new allies, the three of them manage to get attacked by tricks of the light, make bonds that no one really wants and make friends with the most unlikely of people - 'people' being used loosely. Nothing is as it seems anymore.
In the midst of this, a darker force arises to threaten what little is left of Louisa's sane world...
Somewhere in all of the running around trying not to get killed, Louisa has to establish exactly where her loyalties lie. She's got some hard choices ahead and none of them really appeals. One thing is for certain.
She can't save everyone...