Several years have passed since the last book. Ciara is just a few credits away from graduating which also means she';ll soon begin working for Control, the agency that tries to keep vampires under control and a secret from the human population. She's still seeing her vampire DJ boyfriend, Shane, and they are happy together. Her best friend Lori is engaged. So of course the crap hits the fan. There's a mysterious plague killing people in a matter of hours, zombies are being forced to rise, and several major, life altering events happen in Ciara's life. 
 We spend a lot of time with the radio station vampires and see some of them in a new light, which I enjoyed and there's lots of Lori time too. I liked seeing Ciara's interactions with her human best friend and the vampires in her life. Ciara is not the same person she was when the series started - she no longer cons people for a living, she has people she cares about, and has made a home and a life for herself. She's having some trouble adjusting to these changes in her life and then life throws more changes at her. She and Shane have issues to work out, including their differing religious beliefs, and what they want out of their relationship. 
 There are several recurring themes in the book - belief, trust, redemption, hope, community, and faith. Ciara deals with all of these in the course of the book and her decisions reflect her growth and her personality. Smith-Ready wraps all this philosophy in a story full of surprises, action, romance and humor. It was an easy, engaging twisty, read that kept me turning the pages to see what happened next. I'm glad I have the next book so I don't have to wait to find out how the series ends!