Kate is a down-to-earth sophisticated girl during the school hours. She is a member of the club Grace, and she does a good job at it. When she started to have to kill monsters every night, her contributions to Grace started slowing. She found a bit happiness when Herv&eacute; and her started to date. Her best friend was Lise Meyer, until her death went unexplained.

Strange suicides have been taking place in New York. One day, four girls from the same high school wake up in the morning feeling tired and dizzy and not being able to remember anything about the previous night. In school, they find out that one of their classmates has committed suicide. School is canceled for the rest of the day, but instead of going home, the girls are drawn to a park by butterflies only they can see. Suddenly a man and a woman approach the girls, telling them that they all died the previous night.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

In the future (subsequent to the events of the television series) Kate, Rose, Rachel and Claire divide their immortal lives between study and vigilantism. Their past link to the red garden on Roosevelt Island comes back to haunt them after mysterious transfer students Louise and Edgar seek out their friendship.

Strange suicides have been taking place in New York. One day, four girls from the same high school wake up in the morning feeling tired and dizzy and not being able to remember anything about the previous night. In school, they find out that one of their classmates has committed suicide. School is canceled for the rest of the day, but instead of going home, the girls are drawn to a park by butterflies only they can see. Suddenly a man and a woman approach the girls, telling them that they all died the previous night. 
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Four girls find themselves trapped between life and death, forced to kill in order to exist. 
A novel adaptation that has a different narrative emphasis to the anime series, though the characters and setting are the same.

Kate Ashley