"I know who I am." "Do you really Miss Alice?" "Is that my name?" "Is it?" ... At age seventeen Alice May Johnson is grabbed off the streets of Minneapolis, heading to the homeless shelter for her volunteer work in order to graduate high school. Little does Alice know, there is a lot more then just a essay included in this humbling experience. Her whole life is shaken when she is pulled into this world of vampires dwelling in the heart of the city known as International Falls. But in the end will she even remember when her heart turns to ice?

My life has never been easy. Bounced around home to home can never be fun I don't care how strong you are. The only thing that kept me going was those six eyes staring up at me. Beyond those three nothing mattered and nothing was going to break us apart. Not if i had anything to say about it. Cossette would be a normal teenager accept with three siblings at home to worry about she becomes Mom and Dad. With parents who are oblivious and court battles over the kids and her, she's just trying to get through the day and school. But when her friends want her to think about herself for once, she has problems doing so. And she may be oblivious herself to what is really going on in her world.