Roland Kane is a vampire hunter. He is the best at what he does. But in a world that is steadily growing accepting of vampires, what place does he have? And who is he, if not a vampire hunter? An old colleague of Kane's, now a freshly-turned vampire, has emerged to call into question everything that Kane has ever done and to force him to find out what he stands for. He plans to show a broken man that there is always something left to lose...by killing Kane's long-lost daughter.

Aaron has a bully. Every day, after school, a boy named Joshua Burroughs beats him up. He can't run from it and he can't make it stop. When Aaron sees Joshua come to school bearing his own bruises, he tries to befriend the bully and from there things only get much worse. He is sent to a clinic for boys who have suffered extreme trauma, where he examines the lives of everyone around him in order to prove to himself that everyone is afraid of something, and that he is not alone.