EMBRACE THE DARKNESS...Aiden Storm has been living in the shadows and feels there is only so much life has to offer someone like him, until the most beautiful girl he's ever seen arrives at Deerfield High. Jasmine is everything Aiden could possibly want in a girlfriend, but after a chance encounter on the first day of his sophomore year he begins to feel his sanity and emotional control slipping into a dark fantasy of violence, horror, and murder. Confiding in his best friend only complicates things as Tony questions Aiden's sanity and fears that Aiden will one day act on his violent visions, leading him to become Deerfield's first serial killer. The darkness growing inside of Aiden starts to change him, and every day the old Aiden disappears while the new aggressive and dangerous Aiden begins to take control and jeopardize everything and everyone important in his life. Things take a turn for the worse on his seventeenth birthday when he blacks out and wakes up to the aftermath of a rival team member's murder and the report of an intruder in Jasmine's home on the same night. Unable to recall what happened, Aiden becomes the prime suspect. With Tony knowing his dark secret and an FBI agent hot on his trail, Aiden has to figure out how to keep Tony from exposing him while staying one step ahead of the federal agent assigned to the case. He must choose to embrace or expose the darkness.