Gale Anning lives a life of extreme, archaic secrecy. Each night is filled with a fatalistic risk at every turn. Deadly creatures, unseen by the common eyes of mankind, are merely prey to her. For ages, a blood-feud has raged in the shadowy recesses of the world. The constant bearing of war and dark secrets has brought her anguish, causing ill-content with her own kind. She decides to flee, leaving behind her labyrinthian past. As Gale begins her new life, she travels to the home of her parents on an island in Ohio-a territory ruled by her father and safe from any pursuit. During her stay, she rides a ferry that charters between her parent's home on Kelleys Island, to the quaint town of Port Clinton. There, she meets a quiet, reserved young man by the name of Lucas Carmicheal; a deckhand aboard the ferry. Everything she had been yearning for, she has seemingly found in him-a heart without secrets or anger-sheer simplicity. Despite the laws of her kind forbidding a bond with humans, the two begin a relationship that puts Lucas' life on the line. Gale must choose between loyalty to her race, or step further over the boundary and save the man she loves, revealing once and for all, what she truly is.