This is the first of a three book series ( the third will not be out until next year). I won the book in a draw with Penguin Canada, and when I first read the inside cover I thought this was another silly supernatural book for teens, but was I ever wrong. Thirty pages in, I could not put it down, I stayed up half the night reading two nights in a row! This book is fun, sexy, intellectual enough for book snobs, great historical scenes, in short, a bit of everything that makes a great entertaining read. I highly recommend it, as does my 78 year old mother.