Ellen Fritz Knihy

Detective Ted Peterson's investigation of a suspicious death case leads him to suspect Lexi Collins and her boyfriend Adam. What he discovers is that they're extraterrestrials. Now he's without backup and caught up in the conflict between two alien races secretly inhabiting the earth. One race, the Dabih, is abducting women and running experiments. The other, the Mira, seem friendly toward humans - especially their attractive leader Sindri - but can Ted trust aliens to help him find the Dabih and rescue the kidnapped women before it's too late?

Holly and Parker are able to see each other every day but Holly still can't trust herself to be alone with him or kiss him the way she wants to. But he'll graduate from high school soon and Byron promises to finally change him so they'll soon be together the way they have longed to be. Everything seems to be working out beautifully. Charles, though, is still hiding from the Assembly. His plotting to rebuild his band of bloodthirsty vampires goes on as well as his plans to destroy Byron and everyone Byron cares about. His first target is Parker. Parker's very survival is at stake and Holly can't bear the thought that she will never see him of hold him again. How can she go on without Parker?

Searching for Parker, facing the loss of her parents, watching Sarita slip toward death, Holly can't take much more. Byron and the other vampires at Rule the Night aren't in much better shape than she is as her nightmarish dreams of joining Parker in bloodthirst haunt her daily. Their greatest fear is that Parker is already dead. Did Charles find him and kill him or did the Assembly execute him for his bloodthirst according to their own rules? They will go to any lengths to finally destroy Charles and find out what happened to Parker. His fate, though, is the last thing they could have expected. And the truth about Charles shocks them all and reveals an enemy they never knew existed.