Thanks to a violent alter ego by the name of Shevaun, Erin Misrahe has spent over half her life hospitalized. Now, at the age of sixteen, her symptoms have been in remission for years, and she is able to attend public school. But just as Erin's life is gaining some semblance of normalcy, she witnesses her friend transforming into a tiger and soon after finds herself in Shevaun's body. Though she takes this as a dream, Shevaun is in fact a vampire who does not appreciate her unwanted connection to this human girl.
At the age of fifteen, Zack lives in a special ward of an asylum not due to insanity but to allergies that make a normal existence impossible, originally misdiagnosed as psychosomatic trauma following the death of his parents. He is allergic to sunlight, and able to drink only a special mix that he believes to be a strawberry smoothie. Though he accepts this life, enjoying endless television access and the company of his troublemaking friend Charlie, a mysterious stranger in a motorcycle shatters his strange existence and catapults him into an even stranger one.
Freya has finally recovered from years of seeming insanity, stemming from a memory of seeing an angel. Now she has moved to a new school, given herself a makeover, and befriended a popular girl. She doesn't notice that her father is ill or that her brother is endangering himself by protecting a boy for a bully. To Freya, it seems that her life is finally normal. This quickly changes with the arrival of a dark angel and a strange, angel-obsessed girl named Stephanie, who insists upon befriending her.
Anthony Toro certainly meant well when he wrote Web of Deceit. As one of many parents concerned about dangers on the internet, he created a thriller familiar to any American who has read a newspaper: a few bad choices on the internet lead to a young girl being stalked.
