Raven Alistar has been on her own for the last two years. Abandoned at sixteen, she found a job working as a waitress alongside her roommate Janice at a small diner. It wasn't much, but she was surviving, a feat her friends thought was worth celebrating. With an eighteenth birthday just around the corner, Raven's friends help her plan a celebration of her accomplishments. The party is shortlived and thrown into chaos when a gang of vicious strangers crashes it. They attack her guests and attempt to capture her when a beautiful stranger swoops in to save her life. Reluctantly she trusts him to save her and amid their travels, Raven learns the hard truth about her parents and her role in the world of darkness she never knew existed... until now.