Pru has a past that's catching up to her, though no one has ever told her the truth about herself or that past. She lives the life of a person lost in the world as she flounders to make her way through it. Her mother is long dead. Her father, more recently deceased, left her with only a stepmother who is doting if not a little overprotective of Pru's common, monotonous life. Enter Knox, a dark stranger with a thirst for life and death...