Midnight Valley is known for the many cold case murders and disappearances that have taken place within its city limits. It should have come to no surprise to Violet Miller that there was more to these cases than met the eye. In her efforts to protect a friend from the mysterious creatures of the forests and keep him from turning into a monster himself, Violet visits the Exigency, befriends a werewolf and endangers her own life. But it might already be too late.

Loyalty is a curse I have to live with.Weeks have passed since Violet's friend Tristan aligned himself with the group of creatures in the woods of Midnight Valley, a group known as the Exigency. Violet struggles to get a word in edgewise to him, but her troubles have grown beyond that. Tristan's wendigo sire, Natasha Rowell, has enrolled herself in their school and is making every effort to befriend Violet.Violet works to confront the two of them but stumbles across some shocking information–and forms an entirely new bond with the lone werewolf in the Exigency.