Jeremy and Taylor have now finished their summer break, started school, and are trying to live a normal life—as normal as life can be for a pair of teenage strigoi. The police have been following them all summer, still suspicious about their involvement in the death of their friend Ashley and the other strigoi at the end of the previous school year, and there’s no sign that they’ll stop anytime soon. Their nemesis Mobius is dead so they’re hoping to have an uneventful school year. Unfortunately, a new menace appears. A mundane has found a way to kill strigoi and has set his sights on Jeremy and his followers. At the same time Jeremy and Taylor have found a new friend who is dying of cancer. Can Taylor talk Jeremy into turning their friend into a strigoi to save her life? And how will they deal with this new threat