Alfredo "Fredo" Trentinara leaves his US home to live in the Philippines as a television producer. There he meets a number of interesting characters, including a girl whom he falls in love with, a drunken anchorman, and a resentful executive assistant. As odd events keep cropping up in his life, questions spin in a typhoon. Why did the girl, who was so warm in the beginning, grow distant and then disappear? Why did she return after letting a full year pass, with completely different traits and manners? Is she really the girl she claims to be? Fredo doesn't quite think so. Instead, he deems her The Rain Bird. A replacement girl flown in from a terrible storm. A storm that Fredo himself may have created...

Keltie Burke is a teenager living in a detention home for troubled children. One night she and a friend sneak away for a smoke in the basement. Little do they realize, something terrible is with them. When, by chance, they awaken a monster from the shadows, it attacks, and changes the way Keltie goes about her daily life forever. Now she must defend herself against an ancient vampire who spawned the shadow beast—defend, and if she means to go on living, destroy.