He kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him...Drowning in grief as her mother slips away from life in hospital, Zoe senses an odd bond with the beautiful but strangely frightening boy she meets in the dark one night. But Simon is one of the undead - a vampire. Haunted by a centuries-old search for revenge, he dares to hope that Zoe could be the one he has been longing for - the one who can help free him from his insufferable loneliness...A shivery page-turner in which Annette Curtis Klause exquisitely conveys the eternal truths of life, death, and love.