"Maybe it was the look in his eyes that was so much comparable to bloodlust, and I still didn’t exactly know what it was I’d seen there either behind what I took to be misplaced intimacy. Whatever it had been, it didn’t look like anything I’d ever seen before and that was even more frightening. It was as if you could feel it coursing through your veins and sending your heart into frenzy. Whatever it was, I knew deep in my gut that it wasn’t something to be reckoned with and that I already had." What would you do if you knew that your life was in danger and that the very creature that could end your life so suddenly was the man you were falling unfathomably in love with? When Briar Holland shows up at Blackwood High Aubrey Saunders decides to take the risk.