For three years Anjette suffered, thinking that her mother was dead. She had been murdered by a vampire, hypnotized into loving him and then slain. Now at the age sixteen, Anjette is forced out of her aunt's house to live at Witherheart where she comes face to face with everything she thought she had left behind in her childhood. Her mother comes to her at night, transformed into a beautifully frightening creature. The monster who Anjette had thought killed her returns with her on his arm, ready to claim Anjette back into the "family." And all the while she is watched and protected by a guardian named Kegan. However, when the guardian has been designated by the monster himself, Anjette soon finds herself trapped in more ways than one.