A young woman in an Old Order Mennonite community encounters vampires and forbidden love while confronting faith, self-worth, and predation within her tight-knit world.
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A young woman in an Old Order Mennonite community encounters vampires and forbidden love while confronting faith, self-worth, and predation within her tight-knit world.
In the small, Old Order Mennonite community of Mitternacht, Iowa, the people pray that God will deliver them from evil. They should have been more specific. Sophia Brucker is on the threshold of womanhood, standing in the door between her religion's way of life and the possibilities of the world outside. She is also torn between two young men: David Fischer, whom she has known since childhood, and Gabriel Langford, the new arrival. In a community that only grows when people are born into it, a c...
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Romantic attraction and unholy love with vampire; sexual abuse referenced but never graphic.
Vampire killings target community members; predation framed as weeding out the worst.