Vampire movies, friends who feel uneasy around your other friends, parents who want to meet your friends’ parents, a wolf howling in the night, and a middle-school sleepover to celebrate the end of the school year. This book has it all.

Emily enjoys her nightly visits with the two home schooled teens across the street. Neither Emily, nor her parents have ever met Drew and Vicky’s parents. When Emily begins planning the end of the school year party with her school friends, Emily thinks it would be the perfect time to invite Drew and Vicky to meet her school friends. Problems arise, when Drew and Vicky’s parents are never available to meet Emily’s parents.

Oh, why is there a wolf howling in Drew and Vicky’s back yard? “The howling drifted through her window, as if somehow the creature knew that she was coming after it, and calling her to join in. Emily found it strange that this sound didn’t scare her. In fact, it didn’t even surprise her. She felt as though she had an appointment with the beast to settle their score. To end this.” (69)

Time is getting short before the party and Emily still has no word from Drew and Vicky’s parents as to whether they can come or not. Emily takes it upon herself to go to their house and talk to them during the day, but no one is home. Drew and Vicky are home schooled? Emily enters their house. She discovers coffins in a back room. Emily feels “duped, taken, lied to…” (99). Drew and Vicky will not be coming to her party. She wants nothing to do with them. Now, of course, Drew and Vicky want to come to the party.

On the night of the party, Ethan’s cousin Declan comes to the party, too. Declan shares a vampire story. Finally, Emily begins to connect the dots and assumes Drew and Vicky are in fact vampires. But it is too late for Emily. The real Declan was never at the party. The Declan at her party was Drew shape shifted to look like Declan.

In the Epilogue, “Years had passed since the night of the sleepover, and much had changed. Drew and Vicky no longer lived in the same town. As the two had done many times before, they moved to an abandoned house in a new town where no one knew them. Where they would be safe. And where they could make new friends.” (133)