Winter of 1780. The worst time to be a creature like Garrett; the blood stains the whitest snow so evidently that he has started to believe that each meal’s blood as it splatters the ground is a different shade of crimson red.This is the story of Garrett's struggling sense of Patriotic self which he has been transformed from into a blood thirsty, newborn vampire. In 1781, Garett meets Carlisle Cullen and fully understands who he is and what has become of him. Can this freedom fighter find peace?