After Julie Kagawa's The Forever Song, Jackal leaves Allison and Eden behind on the start of a new adventure. With the cure of Rabidism, the world now has a second chance at rebuilding itself and starting new. Of course, this means that vampires and humans will have to find a way to coexist, but that would come much, much later.
With a plan to travel the world, Jackal comes across a girl, Abigail, and decides to allow her to accompany him. At first, he blames this newfound care towards a human on his blood sister having "rubbed off" on him. But as time passes, Jackal comes to the understanding that he, in fact, does care for this human.
Perhaps it's just not the world that has a second chance. But Jackal, as well.
"I have until midnight. I have until midnight before my world inevitably changes, me along with it."
For Kate Strata, time is of the essence. In exactly seventeen hours, Kate will transform into the very thing her family has hunted for years: a vampire.
Torn between fear and love, she must come to terms with her future as well as reconnect with those closest to her before midnight.
While juggling those problems, another one arises when her high school crush, Derek, finally decides to kiss her. Of all the days to strike up a relationship, he chooses the one where on midnight Kate turns into a monster.
Then surfaces the question Kate has been neglecting to answer: When the unstoppable time comes to change, will she stay in her comfortable Colorado town, or leave forever, leaving a family and newfound love behind?
Kate will find out when the clock strikes twelve.
[I penned this when I had been, like, thirteen. So bare in that mind when reading this].