"I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean, she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. And she hadn`t tried to bite me, which was a plus. Of course, the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly "Zoey`s best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead - in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way, not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She`s struggling to retain her humanity and Zoey doesn`t have a clue how to help. But she does know that anything they discover must be kept secret. Trust has become a rare commodity. Sinister forces are at work at the House of Night, where the line between friend and enemy is becoming dangerously blurred. - Not suitable for younger readers?