On the night of Victoria Lightwood's 18th birthday were she has been dragged to a club by her best friend DeDe, stranded and hours away from her family being executed.

Have you ever heard of the tales of Dracula? How he sinks his fangs into the necks of innocent female victims and sucks the life and blood out of them? Well, this story is something like that but it comes with a twist. The heroine of this story is Gwendoline White, a neglected 16 year old girl, who recently lost her parents in a tragic "accident." She, however, believed they were murdered. She's a quiet girl, really, isolated in her own little boring world of torment. It's tragic and quite pitiful but our story begins when she moves in with her aunt who lives in the gloomy yet mysterious town of Gothem where things are never as they seem...