For teenaged werewolf Hawk Rivera, life at Camp 8 is usually two things: dreary and routine. For ten years, he's lived behind a force-field, isolated from the outside world in a compound where he's schooled and trained. Though Hawk's always wanted to know about the world beyond his compound, he's perfectly content to go on with life as it is.
That is, until the day he gains a glimpse of the Outside.
After the compound's force-field briefly malfunctions, Hawk sneaks out into the Outside world to explore what he's been desperately wanting for so long. Though he returns to the compound, he becomes obsessed with the world beyond.
To add to this, he is visited by a blond stranger one night. It becomes fair to say that life for Hawk will never be the same.
This series provides examples of:
- Alcoholic Parent: Again, Officer Rivera. Unlike many examples of the trope though, he isn't outright abusive towards Hawk, at least not intentionally.
- Gayngst: Hawk struggles to accept his own sexuality in a society that discourages homosexuality.
- Our Elves Are Different: Elves are just another species at Camp 8.
- Our Orcs Are Different: Though none are (so far) mentioned in the book, it's implied that orcs are closer to the Blizzard type.
- Our Vampires Are Different: And how! For starters, vampires grow wings around the age of eighteen, don't typically kill their victims when they drink blood (most of the vampire characters drink blood provided by Camp 8, which is implied to have been purchased from blood banks), and are born, not made.
- Putting on the Reich: The Camp uniforms. One could say the entire Alliance can be an allusion to the Nazis.
