It's the last day of school, and Greenleaf High School's bell is about to scream, “Summer!” The kids are ready to GO. Until Claire Vaughn, beloved school counselor, walks into Room 217 with a gun. Ten kids are who she wants—the rest can leave. Now it's a waiting game.
Claire Vaughn is a patient woman, an immortal woman with unusual powers, and proof that her kind can die; by choice, she's well on her way to dead. Claire has been walking the world for an eternity, hunting down others like her. And one of her tribe is right here in Greenleaf, in this building, wearing a friendly, helpful face.
Claire came to destroy her kin and prevent a crime, but her quarry is an immensely powerful man, and his hooks are buried deep in bones of this bucolic town. He's not letting go without a bloody fight—not now when he has a shot at creating a tragedy of horrifying and deeply personal proportions.