A whirlwind of change has bombarded the last six months of Sam O'Sullivan's life: enrolling in community college, a new relationship, amateur boxing, and midnight prowling as Roseburg's masked vigilante, the Hood. Amid a rash of auto thefts in town surrounding her eighteenth birthday, Sam struggles to understand her recent out-of-control violent impulses. Do they come from the birth parents she never knew? To make matters worse, Becky Glass, a nosy small-town reporter, is closing in on her secret identity. Sam will have to balance life and love as she makes her stand against the truck thieves, the press, and her BLOODLINE.