High school is hard enough--even when you're not undead . . . When Noah Vance wakes up with a sore neck the morning after a party, he has no idea that his life is about to change forever. Two strange bites are the only clue to his mysterious pain, and later Noah discovers that these bites have transformed him into a vampire. His strange transformation leads him to a path of discovery about himself, a mysterious party-goer named Hayley, a string of murders, and his estranged father. With everything that's happening to him, Noah wonders if he'll ever be normal again.