Raised by vampire relatives, Jane grows to resent the lifestyles effect on her upbringing. No sunlight, keeping nighttime hours, and a diet of bloody red meat is no way for a mortal girl to live. Things change for Jane when the ghost of her uncle visits her, imparts her parents' slayer history, and charges her with the responsibility of striking out to find others of her kind and learn the slayer ways. After trying her luck at a school full of zombies,...

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, falls intensely in love and marries Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorciee. He is so devasted when she dies of cancer, that his Christian beliefs are challenged as he struggles by means of his faith to come out of the "shadowlands".