When your a teenager, there may be a time when you are faced with a difficult choice. Though it's not really a choice, but a new life. In the world of Zoey Redbird, humans and vampyres live together. The most successful people in the world are what they call vampyres. How do you know if you are being marked? Well you get a tattoo on your forehead of a moon.

Now Vampyres are not the old mythological creatures that Hollywood had made them out to be. No they are extremely beautiful, successful. They are not afraid of sunlight, although it extremely hurts to be in it, they do not cringe at the sight of garlic or crosses. And they are not blood frenzied freaks. Some myths right. Well the students at the House of Night know these things now that they come here. They have no choice but to leave their old life behind, or else they will die. But the House of night was forever changed it seemed when one certain person came to the vampyre school.

Now Bloodlust and dark forces are at work at the House of Night an fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And, oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey doesn’t have a clue how to help her, but she does know that anything she and Stevie Rae discover must be kept secret from everyone else at the House of Night, where trust has become a rare commodity. Speaking of rare, Zoey finds herself in the very rare position of having THREE boyfriends, a situation with the potential to spell social disaster. Then vampyres start turning up dead. REALLY dead. But as Zoey and her friends find out, things are not always what they seem at the House of Night…