Sometimes fate can get it wrong, right? My name is Annabella Parker. I'm an ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life. I’ve never questioned my parents’ random coming and going at the drop of a dime. It’s something that’s always happened my entire life. Then my brother turns seventeen and he’s suddenly doing the same as my parents. A week before my seventeenth birthday, I decide it’s a good idea to follow my brother's best friends to the worst part of town. I wish I hadn’t. I watch them kill a Vampire that’s poised to kill me. How could I be so damn stupid? But what they both tell me is even more bizarre. I shouldn't have been able to see the Vampire as a Vampire. I shouldn't have been able to hear them talk about the Vampire, either. As crazy as that sounds, it’s not the craziest or scariest thing to happen that night. Brian and Corey are the only ones keeping me together as this news sinks in on our walk back to my house. I have magic. Monsters are real. And I'm here to help kill them. How is this my life?