Shayne Leighton

For a thousand years, the Reapers guarded mankind from the demons that wait in the dark. Now, at the beginning of a new age, the Reapers are betrayed and slaughtered. Only one Reaper remains - Red, and she's out to exact revenge.

Things are starting to change when a group of mysterious teens move into the small town of Spoon River. All of a sudden, people in the neighborhood are starting to come down with an unexplained disease. In spite of this, one girl is intrigued by the spirits that embraces the newcomers. Will her curiosity be the death of her?

Julie Thompson, a young conservative Christian woman, is truly tested by God and gives birth to a child conceived in rape. This decision leads her on a journey that forces her to explore and redefine her relationships with God, her family, friends and even her rapist Mike Connor, as she struggles to forgive the man who violated her by boldly visiting him in prison and forging an unlikely bond.

Eden Channing, moves to a new high school after her mother dies in a car accident and then falls in love with Gabriel, a 143 year-old teenage vampire. Students begin dying from what the adults believe to be suicides or drug overdoses, when it is the evil vampire Luscious who is doing them in. Now he has set his fangs for Eden. Gabriel must decide whether to let her die or condemn her to a life of vampire-ism.