Out of seven billion people, there's only one thing we all have in common. We search for what eludes us. We evade what causes us sorrow. We extract what doesn't suit our needs. And we kill to get what we want. WE SEK. In the time it takes you to read this, two lives will be revoked and one spared. Some call it divine intervention, others say natural selection decides, but no one really knows for sure. EXCEPT ME. My name is Keira, and this is how I saved you. *** As a trained SEK hunter, seventeen-year-old Keira thinks she knows what's going on in her world; the shadows called Khayal are real and they bite. But the truth is more complicated, especially when her next target turns out to be Jonathan Steed, good looking, green-eyed, fast-talking-and very HUMAN. Now no one is safe, especially not her heart.