Crisis is one of but a few hackers in the world capable of making a change. With a sorted past and secrets in droves, she knows only one thing for certain: Revenge. In world where vampires are second-class citizens and gangs control law, liberty and injustice, it is up to her to keep her priorities in order and ready those around her for a war only the few can see coming. She finds the hardest part about providing justice in an unjust world is keeping her friends close and her enemies closer. Anthony Bartlett, a small town cop turned guard with a recent diagnosis for vampirism has found the transformation in his life not only a struggle but a curse. Leaving behind the thoughts of equality or family, now to live a life in the shadows, he must find the strength to do what is right. He must come to terms with his change including loosing a chance with a woman he never thought he'd give up on.

Middleton Sanitarium is the medical world's best kept secret. Hidden deep in the Rockies, it houses only the most twisted and disturbed individuals. Evyn Mayr has been working as lead graveyard for six months at Middleton and has come to terms with the nightmares, the screams and the insomnia. But when a strange man enters into her world filed with a darkness she has never seen before and horrors unimaginable, Evyn finds she finally has something to live for again.

Vincent Ashling Jr. has a reputation in his family for being an arrogant rich kid with no respect for anyone and anything but himself. To top the cherry on the cake, when his mother dies and leaves him a mystery house he had known nothing about, the rest of her inheritants grow jealous and upset. However, the home Vincent so longs to discover and possibly profit from unlocks a series of secrets that this spoiled heir was not prepared for.

Damien has been obsessed with the girl in the bookstore for over a year and she is all he can think about. While he has a loyal best friend and a pretty average life on the outside, his obsession seems to be taking over and all he can think about is her. In the mix of his obsession, a cannibal is running around town killing off teenage boys and consuming various body parts. His best friend's personal interest in this killer does not affect him until the murders start to hit a little too close to home for him as well as start to interfere with his addiction. With his bookshop girl.

Jacqueline Prideaux becomes a self destructive gamer when her mother confesses that she'd never loved her own daughter only days after her best friends fatal car accident. Throwing herself into a food-less, water-less gaming binge she realizes she can either stop and live or play to die. As she spirals downward in deep depression, Jacqueline finds herself faced with a once in a lifetime opportunity. In the darkness of a world she has never been, a robotic figure comes to her and proposes the murder of her life in exchange for a challenge. If she wins she dies. If she lives, she also dies but with the reward of bringing her best friend back to life. She accepts the challenge. After all... she does love her games.