Charlotte Emerson has been a teenage vampire for the last 100 years. After escaping her maker 10 years prior, Charlotte meets a girl named Emily, and they become close friends. Unfortunately, Emily mysteriously commits suicide, which leads to Charlotte becoming close to Emily's boyfriend, Jared in their time of mourning. Later in the book, Char is surprised that Emily is still alive and has been turned into a vampire by her evil maker, William making her return to a mortal state in the process. After Emily's failed attempt to persuade Jared to turn into a vampire as well, Jared and Emily pledge their mortal love for each other. The intended audience is for students in grade 9 and up. Although, I do not typically gravitate to romance novels, I thoroughly enjoyed this love story with a suspenseful twist. I was not expecting Emily to still be alive in any form. Char's flashbacks gradually releasing her 100 year old story also strengthened the suspense. This book definitely relates to Kohlberg's theory of social development. For example, Char continued to follow William when he was murdering innocent people for their blood because she did not want him to harm or leave her (preconventional). Eventually, she could not take it anymore and left him. She knew it was wrong to harm innocent people to feed off of them (postconventional).
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