When Darren Shan returns home, he is met by old enemies and scores to be settled, and with destiny certain to destroy him, the world seems doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night.

Following Darren's initiation into the vampire clan. Betrayed by Kurda and reeling from the brutal slaying of Gavner, he is branded a traitor and hunted by the clan. This is the sixth title in the saga of Darren Shan - and the final part in a trilogy, following Darren's initiation into the vampire clan. Betrayed by Kurda and reeling from the brutal slaying of Gavner, he is branded a traitor and hunted by the clan.

Mr. Crepsley leads Darren Shan on a dangerous trek to Vampire Mountain, the very heart of the vampire world, to be presented to the Council, but an encounter with the Vampanese along the way means trouble.

Darren begins the Trials of Initiation to prove himself worthy of being a half-vampire, even as the the clan's blood foes, the vampaneze, gather near Vampire Mountain.

As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.

The first part of the "Hunters Trilogy" in "The Saga of Darren Shan". Darren Shan, Mr. Crepsley and Vancha Marsch are the hunters of the dusk. Their quarry - the Vampaneze Lord. But friends old and new may stand in their way.

When his cousin is murdered at the factory where they both work as child laborers, young Larten Crepsley commits a horrific act and must live on the run until he meets a vampire named Seba Nile who offers him protection and training as a vampire's assistant.

As young vampires, Larten Crepsley and his blood brother Wester travel widely, trying to experience fully the violent, hedonistic pleasures of the human world before committing to the vampire life.

Vampire prince Darren Shan returns to his home town where he finds his family under attack from the forces of his greatest enemy Steve Leopard, his rival to become the Lord of the Shadows.