Tana wakes to the drip drip drip of water. She’s in a bathtub and the remnants of the party are strewn around the bathroom. The rush of the riot last night has settled and Tana figures that everyone is just passed out. They are not and her day just goes from wet to worse in the single beat of her heart. She isn’t alone, though. In a room, she finds her annoyingly adorable ex-boyfriend chained to a bed and a vampire gazing at her through florid red eyes.

Tana’s world is full of fences, quarantines, and blood. Vampires are real and infected humans are everywhere. Some are infected willingly, others, not so much. Tana has never been one of the wannabes, hanging on to the promises of eternal life and surging strength. She survived her mother turning and just wants to live a normal life. That, however, is not now possible. She finds a scratch, a tooth-shaped mark on her leg and knows there’s only one place she can go; Coldtown. It’s a place for monsters, monster-lovers and those unsure of their place in the world.

Now, Tana will risk everything to save the three of them and the lengths she will have to go will take her to the the cold, dead heart of Coldtown.