It wasn't hard for Kirsty's mom to bring up her girls. She loved them equally but she worried about Kirsty. She didn't socialize easily and seemed to be constantly in the land of books and movies. "You need to meet more friends," her mother had explained, but Kirsty was happy with the friends that she found through the books that she read. These were real people with real lives as opposed to the mundanity of the kind of people Kirsty could meet in this small town. Kate, her sister, had teased her during her childhood, but Kirsty was never angry at her sister. "You don't know what you are missing," she explained to her, as her sister hid behind the sofa when the vampire movies were coming to a climax. "Why are you never afraid?" her sister asked her one night. "These are characters with really interesting lives!" Kirsty explained. "But they are not real!" shouted her sister. "They are as real as you want to believe that they are," she said in answer to her sister's protest. Every time that her sister rebuked the existence of vampires, Kirsty would argue that they existed. They were very real to her and she knew, even at the age of nine, that vampires were a very forceful power and that they were more interesting than anything she had ever read about before. Pick up your copy today to read the rest of the story!