In the beach town of Nightshade, California, home to both human and supernatural beings, the Giordano sisters find summer employment and uncover mysteries involving doppelgangers and oversized football players.

High school freshman Jessica Walsh has yet another problem to solve in her capacity of Nightshade, California's virago woman warrior--some supernatural pied piper seems to be using her boyfriend and his band, Side Effects May Vary, and the other bands in Nightshade's Battle of the Bands to perform illegal and fatal things throughout town.

Psychic teen Daisy Giordano has her hands full trying to find out who is behind the blackmail letters being sent to paranormal residents of Nightshade, while also worrying about her werewolf boyfriend going away to college and the possibly lethal cooking lessons she is taking with a sinister chef.

Greek myth and forbidden romance meet in this exciting new urban fantasy. Brooding, leather jacket-wearing Nyx Fortuna looks like a 20-something, and has for centuries now. As the son of the forgotten fourth Fate, Lady Fortuna, he has been hunted his entire life by the three Sisters of Fate that murdered his mother. Fed up and out for revenge, Nyx comes to Minneapolis following a tip that his aunts have set up a business there. His goal é to bring...

Nightshade High freshman Jessica Walsh's hope of finding normalcy in high school is crushed when fellow students develop zombie-like crushes on a new boy, and she learns that she is a Virago, a woman warrior who fights when her city is in trouble.