Releases: July 19What It's About: Sasha Laurens's sophomore YA novel follows Kat Finn, a teenage vampire living in poverty with her mother.
Like all vampires, Kat and her mother drink a synthetic blood substitute called Hema to survive, and it's expensive, causing the two to struggle to make ends meet living among humans.
Human blood is not an option for vampires anymore, as most of humanity has been infected with a virus that kills vampires. All of this has Kat feeling pretty down, imagining an eternal life of just scraping by.
But Kat's luck seems to change when she learns that she's been accepted to the Harcote School — a secret, prestigious, vampires-only prep school.What Kat doesn't expect is to run into Taylor Sanger, her former best friend and out-and-proud lesbian who longs to be free of the vampire world she grew up in, and the conservative and homophobic values it brings along with it.