Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13 9781937349233.NOTE: This is a previously published work. The title, author, and/or publisher may have changed.DeathSome people will do anything to avoid it. Even trade their immortal souls for endless existence.WraithsSecretly, inexorably, they are infiltrating our world, sucking the essence out of unsuspecting victims with their hideous parody of a kiss.SegueAdam Thorne founded the Institute to study and destroy his monster of a brother, but the key to its success is held in the pale, slender hand of a woman on the run. There is something hauntingly different about Talia O’Brien, her unknowing sensuality, her uncanny way of slipping into Shadow.TwilightThis is the place between life and what comes after—a dark forest of fantasy, filled with beauty, peril, mystery. And Talia is about to open the door.