Juliet Capulet has a problem. She's about to turn sixteen, which means she's on the brink of becoming a full-fledged vampire like the rest of her clan, but doing so entails killing and draining an innocent human- something the newly crowned Prince Radu has expressly forbidden after decades of violence between the undead Capulets and vampire-slaying Montagues. Romeo and Juliet marry in secret, but Juliet's transformation is already beginning and her bloodthirsty family have other plans for Romeo- and indeed, all of humanity. What's a girl to do?