Paulette's life is in shambles. Her sister is dead, her mother is a drunk, and she's been forced to transfer into a chaotic public school full of bullies. Things go from bad to worse when, one night while driving them home from dinner, her intoxicated mother hits and kills a teenage boy and is sent to jail. Now Paulette is truly alone. But when the teenage boy mysteriously comes back from the dead looking for Paulette, she finds herself face to face with the purest love on earth.

Growing up together, two friends have been kept in the dark about the bad blood running between their two families. But as their brutal history unfolds before their very eyes, could they still hold on to the friendship they once had? For one: the desire to kill the enemy to avenge their loved ones. And to the other: the perpetual thirst for blood. Could love still heal all this hatred? Or would someone's bloodlust conquer them first...