Seventeen-year
old Faith Lehane has been living on the
streets of Boston for two years now, ever since she ran away from home,
doing
what she has to in order to survive. It’s a hard life when
you’re alone in the
world, and Faith is doing the best she can: trying to keep warm, trying
to get
some food in her belly...and hanging on by her fingernails. She gets by
on
looks and charm, luck and swagger, an ample helping of street smarts,
and most
of all, knowing when to run. But even though running is her specialty,
she can’t dodge a bullet forever: Faith's destiny
catches up
to her, and she
discovers there really are monsters in the world...and heroes to fight
them...
Enter
Rebecca Greer, Faith's Watcher. Rebecca
takes Faith in, teaches her how to fight, how to be strong...and how to
respect
herself. Because some day, Faith might become the next Slayer...
But
as
Faith was painstakingly building a life for herself, Buffy
Summers’ life was
crashing down around her: when Angel, her vampire lover, lost his soul,
he
tried to destroy Buffy and everyone Buffy cared about. Buffy
killed him,
and sent him to
hell...and lost the man she loved. Or so she
thought. Now Angel is back, with his soul restored. But the
damage has been done...and Buffy doesn’t know if she
can ever love
again...or if she can even love herself.
The
next
Slayer is called, and she just happens to be from Boston. Faith revels
in her
power, but she soon finds that being the Slayer means you have a target
on your
back.
Faith
runs to
Sunnydale...to Buffy Summers. The only person who can help
her. But
even if the two Slayers can manage to defeat Kakistos and his
followers, a far
greater threat looms...the greatest threat the world has ever known.
If Faith
and Buffy can survive it, they just might find that out of the
ashes of their old lives, they can build a new one together...
