She also meets the snobby, beautiful leader of the Dark Daughters and Sons, Aphrodite, a fledgling with the power to see the future. Through Stevie Rae, Zoey meets and befriends Damien, Erin, and Shaunee. Another fledgling then takes her to her room, where she meets Stevie Rae, her new roommate and future best friend. As a fledgling vampyre, Zoey has the opportunity to change her name and does so, taking her grandmother's surname, Redbird, before parting with her. She finds out that her Mark is all filled in, unusually for fledglings, but follows her intuition and doesn't mention the vision to Neferet. Zoey wakes up at the school in the presence of her grandmother and the vampyre headmaster – her future mentor, Neferet. The goddess leaves Zoey with the words 'Darkness does not always equate to evil, Light does not always bring good' which becomes a very frequent and important message throughout the series. On the way, she passes out and has a vision with the vampyre goddess, Nyx, who announces to Zoey that she will be her 'eyes and ears' at the House of Night. As fledglings need to be constantly in the presence of an adult vampyre so that their bodies won't reject the Change, Zoey flees to her grandmother Sylvia, a Cherokee Wise Woman. Her mother, Linda Heffer, blames her for the Mark and, together with her ultra-religious husband (Zoey's stepfather/step-loser), she tries to keep Zoey at home, to be presented to the Elders of the People of Faith, an anti-vampyre group. She gets stopped outside in the parking lot by her ex-boyfriend Heath and his friends, who call her a freak and drive away. One day, during school, Zoey is marked by a Tracker to become a fledgling vampyre at the Tulsa House of Night, a boarding school where she will be trained to become an adult vampyre. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird lives in a world where vampires, or 'vampyres' have always existed. The book has been translated into more than 20 languages including French, Spanish, German and Chinese.

Young fledgling Zoey is unusual: unlike other normal fledglings, she bears a filled mark, a sign that the goddess of vampyres, Nyx, has bestowed a great destiny onto her, but she also has to deal with normal high school girl issues, like school, boyfriends and the evil popular girl waiting just around the corner. Those are sent to their local Houses of Night, private schools directed by vampyres, specialized in helping the adolescents, called fledglings, survive the Change. Young teenagers are selected to enter a four-year period transformation to a vampyre and marked with the unfilled mark of a crescent moon. Marked is the first novel of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C.

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