- Nina lets us know that all this action happened one year ago, and there've been a lot of changes since then.
- Nefley's now a vampire supporter, showing up to their meetings every week. Reuben helps keep an eye on him, though it's a struggle for Reuben to deal with his werewolf side while trying to reconnect with his family and finish high school.
- The McKinnons are now in the support group, too, though they're changed men. Forrest Darwell thinks they tried to frame him, so they are not only dealing with the physical debilitation of the transformation, but they're also in hiding. Ugh.
- Horace was interred as a punishment for spreading the infection, which has everyone upset. Nina feels guilty because she worries that her Zadia Bloodstone books influenced Horace to act the way he did.
- Dave seems happier these days—he's writing music again. It probably helps that he and Nina are an item now.
- Nina still has mixed feelings about the influence of her Zadia Bloodstone books, so she's been writing a memoir about the real vampire experience. Names and identifying details have been changed, of course.
- She breaks the news to her group, and right on cue, everyone flips out. There's a raging debate about whether she can possibly have changed enough details to protect everyone's identity.
- Nina reflects that we (the readers) will never really know the truth, ideally. And she's done her best, which is all you can ask of a normal human being, right?