It's bad enough being the most unpopular girl in school, but when a strange new exchange student shows up, Samantha Abraham discovers she may be in love with a golem. It was love at first sight for Sam when Joshua, the dark and mysterious foreign student from Eastern Europe, walked in to class. He’s dreamy, great at hockey, and she’s landed the chance to be his tutor. But the more time she spends with him, the more he seems to harbour a sinister secret. It’s starting to look like he’s a criminal, but he might also be a monster... With the help of her over-zealous, secretly- crushing BFF Duckie, and with the popular girl bullies nipping at her heels, Sam must go up against a bunch of weird science, and a hellish high school social life, before she has a remote chance of a first kiss... or of surviving the Halloween dance.

Samantha Abraham lost everything when she lost Joshua—but the fight for the ruby, and what it means, isn't over yet. Sam is back in River City and the events of Heart of Clay have left her raw. If deranged necromancers were bad, you’d think Debbie and her slugs would be small potatoes, but Sam’s life has gone straight back to hell in her senior year. even with her high level hapkido skills, and a budding relationship with hockey hunk Rick Hansen, nothing seems to fill the gaping hole that joshua and duckie’s disappearances have left... But just as suddenly as he vanished, Joshua reappears with grave tidings, and sam must decide what lengths she’ll go to prevent her life—and her boyfriend’s body—from falling apart.