Marienne is different from how she used to be. After she recovered from the car wreck that nearly killed her, she withdrew from the life she was leading-not just because her family was destroyed and her friendships broken, but also because she started noticing some very disturbing things about the world around her. These days, along with keeping to herself, she simply endures the horrific monsters she sometimes sees in the place of seemingly normal men. She doesn"t know what to do, so she does nothing. Gabe has been Light for eight years. He"s accustomed to the unique lifestyle centered on destroying the creatures of darkness that infiltrate the human world to wreak havoc on it. As a Gatherer his job is to find new Light people and introduce them to their new way of existing, but the routine and relatively quiet life he"s been leading for so long is interrupted when he encounters Marienne. She"s distinctive, and of all the bizarre things he"s seen in his life, her unexpected...