Dion Overtoun

Returning to Cornwall from boarding school is supposed to give Dorothy a chance to relax and forget, at least for a little while, the bleak future awaiting her. However, she finds once-sleepy Brightwater being rocked by troubles the likes of which neither medicine nor the investigation of her best friend Mordred can explain. Not even the once-aristocratic Brightwaters themselves are safe.

Dorothy's home provides no shelter, for lurking there is the man who may be at the center of all the recent troubles: the handsome, ominously reclusive vampire Halim. They have an immediate, tantalizing connection, but Halim's dedication to honesty terrifies Dorothy more than it comforts her. 

Swamped by danger from every angle, Dorothy's fight to make her own way could lead to safety and bliss with Mordred... or drown them all in the horrors of the night and its starving denizens.