
While attending Mundelein College, Elsie discovers a young girl apparently living in the caretaker’s hut. When she learns why and how Anna came to be living with Gunther, she wants to help.

The vampires in The Second Species series do a lot of things—they have wings, they fly, they fall in love, they drink blood, they kill—but they do not sparkle. Since they live and walk among humans, sparkling would be a dead giveaway. Marek even owns a restaurant in New Orleans. But not all is well in their world.