Description: Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.

Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?

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Children's Literature Review: Zoe, a lonely teenager, is trying to cope with her best friend moving, her hospital-bound mother, and an overprotective father who believes his daughter is not strong enough to handle her mother's illness or imminent death. One evening she meets Simon, a three-hundred-year-old vampire. An absorbing tale with a touch of suspense, horror, and romance. Black-eyed Susan Book Award winner. Reviewed by Mary Sue Preissner.

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