Teenage Alexandra Eidyn had no suspicion that her annual trip to Grandmother's house to spend the summer would this time destroy her plans to attend Oxford University in the fall and instead propel her into the World of Vampires and eventually to the gates of Heaven and Hell. On the way, she'd fall in love - something she'd come to think wasn't even possible for her - with two people, become a fugitive from justice, and be a casualty of the Church to which she'd turned for help. She falls into a vampire soc