JUST ONE TASTE CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING. All seventeen-year-old Dusty wants is to escape into books and the Adirondack wilderness that surrounds her small town. But in the dead of night, strange things have been happening in Black River. Animals are being ravaged by something unnatural. And Dusty wakes up one day with dirt on her feet, changed and starving. When new kid Will arrives, Dusty feels an attraction unlike anything she's felt before. She wants him . . . or she wants his blood. As Dusty realizes she's transforming into something she can't control, she reluctantlyturns to the only person she somehow knows will understand: the annoyingly attractive Eli Blake. Together, Dusty and Eli must uncover the mystery of their town and their new, insatiable desires. Have they become vampires or some other kind of monster? Whatever they are, they're not the only ones.