for her entire life, cassandra has been plagued by the consequences of being a banshee-a harbinger of death. as a teenager, she lost three of the most important people in her life. now, fresh out of college, she returns to her hometown in northern california, hoping for a quiet summer with the rest of her friends. (friends that are something other, just like her.) instead, she finds her almost lover-supposedly dead in the middle of her kitchen. between that and reports of vigilante like monsters, women with wings, terrorizing the town, well...cassandra is in for quite a summer.