Amanda Blake reaches for her phone. She's still half-asleep, but the call's from her old school and holds the promise of the one thing she desperately needs: blood. To get what she wants, she's told she can help look into a killing that's created another unwanted member of her own kind. One more vampire, who, just as Amanda was not so long ago, will be instructed on how to live an unwanted second life at the school of the undead.