Flicker (Elise's Story) (Volume 1)

“Trapped... Trapped and helpless... Hopeless...” Three years ago, Elise was a normal girl—popular, athletic, and excited for her freshman year of high school. One day, one hour, changed all of that—and Elise has never been the same. Now, hiding the secret that’s scarred her so deeply, the secret that she and her parents moved hundreds of miles to escape, Elise has sworn off human contact. But her self-imposed isolation is threatened by the appearance of an unpredictable new classmate named Alex, whose flashes of darkness beneath the façade of a blameless teenager echo her own masked conflict. Drawn together by mutual attraction, they nevertheless struggle to learn how to trust one another, until Alex reveals to Elise that the biggest secret of all is the strange power hidden in her own blood. But just as Elise embarks on her journey of self-discovery, a terrifying and tantalizing figure from the depths of Alex’s past isolates her once more with an offer she’s not sure she’s allowed to refuse.