Raven Madison is not your typical teenage girl, not even by the standards of a goth girl stuck attending high school in Dullsville. For one thing, Raven’s boyfriend, Alexander Sterling, happens to be a vampire --- a handsome and mysterious vampire who is a gifted artist to boot. Raven wants nothing more than to be made a vampire by Alexander, but quiet, reserved Alexander is resisting her appeals to be turned. He prefers to leave his girlfriend a mortal. Indeed, he wishes fervently that he can live a normal teenage life with her --- a life that involves such mundane things as high school and homework, and a life in which his time with her isn’t limited to the darkest hours of night. His firm resistance to turning her is putting a serious damper on her plans to become one of the undead, but she is convinced that she can eventually persuade him to her way of thinking, and then they will be together forever.