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She works with Nora in the eZine, the school’s journalist club. Vee likes to take dares and tries to drag Nora into her schemes. He is very wealthy, even to the point where he actually bought his girlfriend her own apartment for their privacy. The beginning of the novel starts with a young boy named Chauncey in the Loire Valley of France in 1565. Chancey encounters a boy who antagonizes him. Chancey, who is very angry, keeps declaring that he is the Duc de Langeais and that his father was once this status. The boy then laughs and reveals to Chauncey that Chauncey is part of the Nephilim, or the race of half human and half fallen angel. The boy forces Chauncey to swear and oath of fealty towards him and that he would need his mysterious service from Chauncey every two weeks at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan.
 * ’’’ Blythe Grey’’’, Nora’s mother, works with ‘Hugo Renaldi Auction Company’. She coordinates estate and antique auctions along the East Coast. She is usually gone a lot because her company requires her to travel a lot. The novel starts with her gone up to New York for a week. She and Nora have a loving relationship and expects Nora to call her at night to speak with her.
 * ’’’Marcie Millar’’’, a sophomore at Coldwater High, constantly picks at Nora and Vee every time she sees them. Marcie is on the varsity cheer leading squad and is described as “her skin being concealed under half a bottle of foundation. She has strawberry blond hair and she has been wearing Mary Kay since the 7th grade . Her mother works at the local JCPenney and has the entire cheer leading squad model in bikinis.
 * ’’’Jules’’’, Elliot’s best friend, is usually sick when the girls and Elliot go to hang around somewhere.
 * ’’’ Kjirsten Halverson’’’, the deceased girlfriend of Elliot, was murdered two months prior to the novel. However, reporters say that they found a suicide note but there was evidence of a break in. She was hung from a tree. Jules was the murderer of Kjirsten.
 * ’’’ Rixon’’’, Patch’s closest friend, is a fallen angel with an Irish accent. He plays pool with Patch and likes to mess around with women.

The novel advances forward to the present day in Coldwater, Maine to Nora Grey, who attends Coldwater High School with her best friend Vee Sky. In their biology class, Nora is forced to sit next to the new senior, Patch Cipriano.even discovers a mysterious birth mark on her wrist.Nora and Vee are introduced to two men named Elliot, a wealthy transfer from King Horn Prep who was questioned in a murder, and Jules, a mysterious man who is usually “sick” when Elliot and the girls go somewhere. Nora encounters frightening experiences through out the book, like hitting a man with a ski mask with her car and the same man beating up Vee and their rival, Marcie Millar.

Throughout the novel, Nora begins to follow Patch and she tries to discover about his personal life. Nora must make daily trips to the school’s psychologist to discuss about her father’s tragic death, but later on, the school replaces the psychologist with a mysterious woman named Dabria Green. Patch needs a female descendant from the vassal to sacrifice in order to become human. At the end, while trying to escape a fight from Jules, Nora sacrifices herself by jumping from a rafter. The novel ends with Nora and Patch as a happy couple.

Beverly Horowitz, vice-president and publisher of Knopf Delacorte Dell Young Reader’s Group commented that “Some people think, vampires-who wants to deal with the bloody side of that?”. Also, Bookseller’s Top 20 Children’s Books noted that Hush, Hush climbed to the top 10 of the Top 20 Children’s Books, taking its place at number 9 on the chart.