Midnight

Samantha Clark has always known she was different. Brought up in a loveless household, she can almost forgive herself for turning to an abusive boyfriend to help give her the roots and love she desperately needs. But that solution turns violent, and Sami is on the run, turning to a college friend who offers her a new hope at 'family'. Finding the place where she now lives abhorrent does nothing to foster Sami's recovery from the former abuse. Even her friends strike her as an oddly reclusive bunch, except for their unofficial mentor. With Michael, she feels a real bond. But as her relationship deepens with the entire group, she begins to wonder at their odd ways. Set in rural Kentucky in 1985, Midnight eschews the typical cardboard cutouts of the old Dracula image. Under the careful tutelage of her friends, Sami awakens to her vampiric nature and also sheds her past perceptions of who she thought she had to be. Midnight is the inward journey of Sami's self-loathing, self-reflection, and eventual self-acceptance. From every corner of time and space, sometimes people go missing without a trace. They never come back. Get lost in the long stone halls of the maze with the ones that find each other, form tribes, scrape out a life from rocks and sand. Their stories interweave. Maia Station is a scientist ripped from stasis, but she has no tools to test the way things are. Instead, she raises her daughter as best she can and survives. Wang Xin once had his head dipped in water, and a djinni in the water entered his eye. He sees the future, exactly as it was supposed to be if he hadnt seen the light, but it does him no good in the life he has. In a world much like our own, Joseph comes home from a ten year high school reunion and encounters a light in the darkness. The light speaks. My name is Jenny. Put me in your lung. Breathe deep.