The Silver Kiss

the long version

16-year-old Zoë's life is falling apart; her beautiful mother is dying of bone cancer, her father has shut her out, and her best friend, Lorraine, is drifting away. So when the mysterious and handsome Simon comes along with a more profound loneliness, a tentative friendship is formed. But does Simon have serious problems, Zoë wonders when she finds him with blood on his face, or just plain crazy, when he claims to be a 300 year old vampire? And is he right about the identity of a serial killer w