Anne has always thought her Mom is a little quirky. When her Mom doesn’t come home from one of her long business trips Anne isn’t too surprised. When a few days go by, though Anne knows something is wrong. The phone is disconnected at the hotel her Mother said she would be staying at and a strange man is leaving threatening messages on her answering machine. Why has her Mother always been so mysterious about where she is going ? Why has she never gotten a cell phone so Anne can reach her? Anne’s “grandparents” share her concern and give her a sealed envelope from her Mother that reveals all her Mom’s secrets - secrets that put Anne in great danger and reveal that nothing is as it seems.

Cole is a hemovore, a person who survives solely by drinking the blood of other humans. Additionally, he will suffer greatly if he's exposed to the sun, Oh yes, he will also live forever, meaning that he will always be 18. These conditions, he says, are not to be confused with being a vampire. Yet, they do make living more complicated. Certain rules must be followed or consequences must be paid. Cole himself once made a grievous error, and now must pay the penalty for all eternity. Now that Gordon, a newly created 18 year old hemovore has been added to the colony, it is up to Cole to teach Gordon NOT to make the same mistakes he did. To do so Cole must re-address the consequences of his own disastrous mistake...and she lives upstairs.

The night Nobody (Bod) Owens' family was slaughtered in their beds Bod managed to escape and slip into the graveyard and hide. This was remarkable, considering that Bod was just a toddler...Roused by the murder's pursuit of Bod, the dead rise to the occasion and protect Bod and vow to keep him safe and raise him. As Bod grows up in the graveyard he learns many things about the worlds of both the living and the dead. One of the things he learns is that the murderer still wants to kill him and is looking for him right now.

Why would anyone put a loaded gun to their head and pull the trigger, just hoping the barrel stops on an empty chamber? What crazy person would take that chance? Connor Kaeden finds the answer is not as straightforward as it would seem. When Connor's friends play Russian Roulette and disaster results, Connor struggles to understand how the tragedy unfolded. He also struggles to cope with the end results of his choices and actions.