Under a Blood Moon

Alex Licey has one year left of high school and a list of laundry list of problems; she misses her father, her mother's new boyfriend is a bucket of red flags, her little brother won't stop putting ketchup on his frosted flakes, her best and only friend has the backbone of a dead jellyfish, and she just woke up a sleeping vampire.

Despite living in a graveyard crypt, Lucas is not what she'd have expected from a vampire, had she known to expect vampires, that is. He's polite, less dramatic, a bit lost with technology, and more interested in books than blood. So it has to be a coincidence that the exsanguinated bodies of young girls started to show up right around the same time Alex met him...right?

Wanting more information, Alex asks her uncle, a police officer, and gets the worst possible answer a girl like her can: Leave it alone! She takes the first chance to visit one of the crime scenes on Halloween night, where she discovers not only a ghost, but also that her odd little brother is a powerful psychic.

He warns her that danger is coming, but can't explain the details. Is it Lucas who means her harm? His caustic protege? Or does the thirsty thing in the night further prove that the darkest hearts belong to mortal men?