The New Millennium...
Vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a New Year's Eve party in Daikaiju Plaza in Tokyo,
When Annie Jackson's father doesn't return from war, her mother remarries. But while the outside world thinks Leonard Spode is a loving husband & father, behind closed doors he reveals his true colours, & Annie is forced to grow up very quickly. In her brave attempts to expose Spode for the monster he is, Annie finds herself branded a trouble-maker, & is sent to a children's home
- where she discovers she is pregnant. One thought keeps Annie going: that Spode will one day be brought to justice. If not in her lifetime, then in her daughter's, to whom she plans to tell the full story on her eighteenth birthday...