In Awakened, book five of the Vampire Legends, Rachel Wood wakes in Benji’s arms, except there is one problem: She cannot remember who Benji is. Heartbroken, Benji lets her go, as she insists on leaving him and returning home.

Rachel arrives back in her home in Pennsylvania, and her dad and brother Mark are shocked to see her. She is even more surprised at their reaction. She can’t remember what happened exactly, but she feels sure that she was only away for a single night. Why is everyone acting so crazy and so surprised to see her?

Rachel, not remembering anything else, insists on resuming her normal life. She insists on returning to her old high school in Pennsylvania, where she runs into all of her old friends, who are equally startled to see her. A new love interest arrives in her life, while she tries to shake dreams of strange omens and of Benji, who she still doesn’t remember. She also tries to fight these strange hunger pangs that are overtaking her.

In the meantime, Rob is as set as ever on finding Rachel, and he crosses the world, wreaking destruction, to get her. Benji, too, is determined to save her, to make her remember their love, while Hunter and Penelope and Matilda are on a mission to find the Waverly Tablet and prevent Violet from conquering the world.

It will be a race to the end while all these forces try to converge on Rachel. But by the time they reach her, she may even be gone herself.

Will Rachel remember her true love? What choice will she make?

Awakened is book five of the Vampire Legends series and is also a stand-alone novel.