How could I resist? I never stood a chance against those emerald green eyes. Selfishly I let him in and now it is up to me to keep us both alive. Ella White is a twenty - one - year - old who's life is a little. . . complicated. Her skin far too pale, her eyes too dark and her need for someone to love far too strong. For Ella, this is just the beginning. An inexplicable trail of death behind her, a surveillance team with impossibly hard hands and coal-black eyes, just like hers? and a stalker with a Familiarity that Ella just can not place. Secrets and whispers are being revealed as she dares to let herself fall for the forbidden. Now she is in a race against those that lurk in the shadows to remain the human she is and fight off the monster she fears will break the confines of her mind.