No matter how brutal, the law must be kept..
Leiv Patch was killed, turned, and left to his own devices. With nothing more than an ancient tome to educate him in the zombie ways, he's eked out a lonely—and sometimes miserable—fifty years of undead existence. When he meets raven-haired Iraina Lukin on a 911 call, he begins to realize that being a riser doesn't mean he has to go it alone. Having a Save means anything is possible. Love, family, a future. The only problem? A union between a riser and a human is against the Oracles' law...and Iraina doesn't want to be turned.
Conner Grayson lives as a street kid in the Windy City after his father is locked away for murder and his mother overdoses on drugs. Street savvy, he becomes extremely good at surviving. Never make friends—that's the key, then nobody can screw you over and you never owe a soul. It works. Until he meets Leather. She's quiet and sad, but something about her draws Conner in. He looks for her every morning in the shelter lines and before long, they're inseparable. But Leather is not as she seems, and soon his friend is making him an offer he can't refuse: she can make all of his brutal heartache and struggle to survive go away. All he has to do is say yes.