When college senior Lena Crowe moves into an old estate house for her final semester, she thinks her biggest problem will be surviving thesis deadlines. Instead, she wakes one night to find a man standing in her room. Pale. Beautiful. Impossible. He tells her he is bound to the house by a centuries-old curse and that her arrival has awakened something dangerous. But as murders spread across town, Lena begins to wonder if her mysterious protector is also the killer. The closer she gets to the truth, the closer she falls for the very thing she should fear.