Peter Essex

Peter James Essex is one of the main characters in the Arbor Wells Journal and the love interest of Maureen Shaw. Peter Essex is a vampire. Peter is related to Joseph Essex, who is also a vampire.

Season 1
Peter comes in as anew student to Arbor Wells High School. He meets Maureen and the two grow close throughout the day. Maureen invites Peter to a pool party at the beach. Joseph gets info of this meeting, and decides to ruin the party by killing Katie Norbert and dumping her body into the water.

Peter found himself being invited inside Maureen's home while her mom was out. While getting him something to drink, Maureen accidentally makes Peter cut his palm open. After trying to get the cut to go unnoticed, it worked as it was already healed. Maureen grows concerned and begins to research stuff about vampires(Peter was talking about it via Taco Bell). She soons comes to the conclusion that Peter was the one who killed Katie(even though we know it's Joseph).

Maureen goes back to her house and is not-so-pleasantly greeted by a mysterious man, later to be revealed as Grim Shaw. Peter, Revan, and Morgan rush to Maureen's house and try to kill the vampire. The vampire escapes just in time.

Morgan uses her magic to use a locater spell to find the vampire. The spell leads them to Wilmington, NC. They go to the police station where they find several dead bodies disguised as clues. The clues lead them to an address, 2547 Maple Road. The 5 go to the house. Morgan busts the door down and the 5 walk into the house where they are greeted by the vampire. The vampire reveals his identity as Grim Shaw. Grim, Maureen, and Morgan talk and try to get explanations. A very demanding Morgan asks where Pam is, and thats when Pam walks around the corner. Pam gets Grim to call his vampire army and makes sure that Maureen doesn't leave Wilmington alive.

In episode 8, They're in the alley way, coming up with a way to get out of Wilmington. They all sneak into a car and drive away back to Arbor Wells to check on Amy. Thats when Maureen and the others get there. Joseph and Maureen inform Amy of whats going on. And then from there they devise a plan to try to stop Maureen's aunt from fulfilling her plan.