In an alternate universe ,Great Britain during the Victorian Age,a time caught between the modern and the old ways, miles from the outskirts of London is a small village named Hollowson. This peculiar village holds a dark secret....Shadows, horrible monsters created from the deep ,sinful , regrets of dead humans that feed on the living in the night. 16-year-old aristocrat Almena Ferring, who is just as ordinary as any other girl experiences a horrible event that turns the tables of her life. In the Saint Angelico's church in the high belltower lurks a boy no older than her with pale hair and grey eyes, seemingly angelic to Almena, until she sees him brutally devour a Shadow...is this boy really a human? And why does he seem so familiar?