<p>''The Octavia Butler novel for our times'' <b>THE ATLANTIC</b><br><br>''My book of the year . . . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it'' <b>JUNOT D¿Z</b><br><b><br>The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.</b><br><br>A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.<br><br>As Shori heals, she realises that she isn''t like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.<br><br>To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her - and those who want her dead.<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR</b><br><br>''In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler''s novel may be unmatched'' <b>NEW YORKER</b><br><br