Gilead is a sleepy New England town with more than its share of dark secrets. Jack and Jill are two half-crazed teenage lovers that can't wait to get out-if they don't kill each other first. Simon Stark is a private detective with secrets of his own, who's come to Gilead in search of a mysterious painting. Hope Hadley is a normal teenage girl in Gilead for depressingly mundane reasons-a court ordered visit with her estranged father. No one is prepared for the horde of bloodthirsty vampires that will forever shatter the quiet of Gilead's nights. But they are coming.