Welcome to a world where the vampire Higher Court rules all and the humans are kept as slaves and food. The only way to rise to a higher rank as an insipid human is to become a Renfield - a caste of higher humans, which only find their place underneath the lowest of the vampire line.
Renfield's are the families of the chosen Harkers - the girls who make up the bi-annual sacrifice made to keep the sun blotted out as it has been for over a thousand years.
When Buffy Summers is taken in the vampire Higher Court as a Harker and is scheduled to be sacrificed within a year's time to the powerful lieutenant to the Master, Lord Angelus, will she die a horrible death as ones before her?