Young Niara Ashford ran away from home. Her last moment with her parents was her crying over the blood that stained her hands and clothes. Blind with fear she runs to the woods. Where she meets her death... oh wait. That's wrong. She meets the death of the old Niara. She wakes up, and something's different. She isn't in the woods, or her home, or anywhere recognisable. A dark young man brought her here, and she needs to know why. But she is totally different, in more ways than one. She finds herself falling for this guy, who has a dark secret of his own. And this new Niara, certainly, won't cry any more.