There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. But the lake had been quiet for years... She never heard them coming. Of course you don't, when they're vampires. They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion - within easy reach of her fellow prisoner. he knows that he is a vampire. She knows that she's to be his dinner, and that when he is finished with her, she will be dead. Yet, when dawn breaks, she is still alive. And now it is he who needs her to help him survive the day... It's an astonishing piece of work. A gripping, funny, page-turning pretty much perfect work of magical literature that exists more or less at the unlikely crossroads of CHOCOLAT, INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, MISERY and the tale of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' - Neil Gaiman '