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Reader reviewed by Julie H

Dru Anderson and her father have spent a lot of time chasing things that most people don't know exsist, the things that "go bump in the night".  Dru's mother died when she was five and before travelling around the South Eastern part of the US with her Dad, she lived with her Gran in the Appalchias.  There, Dru learned a bit about folk remedies and the "touch" they shared, to be able to ferret out some of these evil beings.  Now, Dad has taken her up to the Dakatos, in the middle of winter, no less.  She's enrolled in another new school, where so far, her only friend is a Goth-like kid named Graves who sits in front of her in class.  It doesn't take very long in their new digs before one day, Dru's father doesn't return home from his beast hunting.  Dru turns to Graves for help.  Her father has left her well-trained and she comes off as very tough, but does she have the ability to keep them both alive? 
I would mention I feel this is for older teens. Definitely not all pretty like Twilight.  I know it's done as a plot device to show how tough Dru is, but she swears alot (there is more than occurrence of the f-word) and she drinks Jim Beam (alone, in her kitchen).  This is only tempered a bit by Graves inisistence that they return to school and not skip!  He wants his GED so he can go on to college and make some real money.  You know what they say about the best-laid plans... By the end, I decided I am definitely looking forward to the next book in the series, called Betrayls, out in late fall.