Awakened is the eighth book in the House of Night Series. It was released on the fourth of January 2011. It starts almost directly after the end of Burned with Zoey Redbird, James Stark, Aphrodite LeFont and Darius at the Isle of Skye. All the rest of the Nerd Herd are in Tulsa trying to decide their next move while Kalona has just returned from the Otherworld and Neferet decides to do the job he failed to do. But luring Zoey back to Tulsa to defeat her on her own terms will be harder than she thinks when Zoey is being drawn into the magick of the Isle of Skye.