Although Morganville, Texas is often a troubled city, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to returning home. But Morganville, to which they return, is not the one they know; it has become another place a deadly one... Something drastic happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away. The town looks cleaner and happier than they have ever seen it before, but when entering the city, their group was arrested and separated - vampires from people - they realized that the changes are not for the better. It seems that a foundation called Daylight has offered the people of Morganville something they never had: the hope that they have a vampire-free future. And although it sounds like salvation even for vampires the truth is much more sinister and deadly. Now Claire, Shane, and Eve need to find a way to save their friends from incarceration at the foundation before the Morganville vampires meet their death...