At first Becky Hammond is pleased. Since she and her daughter Karen arrived at Aunt Ellen's house, the old woman's health has improved greatly. She had been on the brink of death. Now she's feeling much better. It seems too good to be true. Then Becky realizes it is too good to be true. It's a nightmare that could cost Karen her life.
Twins Jean and Jared, dismayed about the changes taking place on their island home, decide to investigate when they come to suspect something shady is going on at the top-secret HybriGene laboratory.
Rita Murray, overweight, undisciplined, and fearful, accidentally creates an alternative self in a virtual reality game who slowly becomes real and tries to take over Rita's life.
Joe Stebbins puts his life in danger when he teams up with reporter Holly Atchison in an attempt to discover what really happened to him on a night three years earlier when he believes he was abducted by aliens.
Jake begins an investigation when Yolanda and other students around him begin to disappear on campus, but when he finally sees Yolanda, Jake notices some differences and suspects she has been turned into a vampire.
Years after she was sent away by her grandmother, Melinda explores her old homestead and discovers a curious picture inside a photo album of a young girl whose appearance has not changed in fifty years.
Ellie witnesses a brutal attack and is offered shelter by a group of strangers, but the more time she spends with them, the less Ellie is convinced of her safety.
