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The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire
Includes stories by Melissa de la Cruz, Holly Black, Kelley Armstrong, Libba Bray, Rachel Caine, Cecil Castellucci, Cassandra Clare, Nancy Holder, Lili St. Crow, and others.


Fendi, Ferragamo and Fangs

Presents, in one continuous story, different points of view of Vamp Modeling, Incc, as three teens are selected to be groomed as supermodels, unaware that success depends on their becoming vampires.  Contains three stories by Julie Kenner, Johanna Edwards, and Serena Robar.


Anderson, M.T.- Thirsty

From the moment he knows that he is destined to become a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.


Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia- In the Forest of the Night

Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.


Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia- Demon in My View

Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.


Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia- Shattered Mirror

As seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.


Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia- Midnight Predator

Turquoise Draka, a vampire hunter, is hired to kill the evil vampire Jeshikah.  To enter his realm she must disquise herself as the human slave of Jaguar, a vampire and slave owner who is tormented by his own past. Will Jaguar release the humanity Turqoise long ago locked away?

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia- Persistence of Memory
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, Erin has spent half of her life in therapy and on drugs, but must face the possibility of weird things in the real world, including shapeshifting friends and her "alter," a centuries-old vampire.

Brewer, Heather-
The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod
    Eighth Grade Bites
    Ninth Grade Slays
    Tenth Grade Bleeds

For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire and to his parent’s deaths, than he could have guessed.

   

Caine, Rachel- The Morganville Vampires series
    Glass Houses
    The Dead Girl's Dance
    Midnight Alley
    Feast of Fools
    Lord of Misrule
    Carpe Corpus
    Fade Out

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school’s social scene: somewhere less than zero.  When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better.  Her new roommates don’t show many signs of life.  But they’ll have Claire’s back when the town’s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for blood.

   

Cary
, Kate- Bloodline series
    Bloodline

In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.

    Bloodline: Reckoning

In this story told primarily through journal entries, Quincey Harker, the heir to Dracula’s bloodline, returns to England in 1918 to pursue Nurse Mary Seward, whose fiancé has been transformed into a monstrous vampire.


Cast, P.C. and Kristin Cast-
House of Night
    Marked
    Betrayed
    Chosen
    Untamed
    Hunted
    Tempted

Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire- that is, if she makes it through the Change.  Zoey is no average fledgling, she has been Marked as special by the vampire Goddess, Nyx.  But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers.  When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny.

Clare, Cassandra- Mortal Instruments
         
City of Bones
         
City of Ashes
         
City of Glass

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.


Collins, Nancy- Vamps
   
Vamps
    Night Life
    After Dark

At an elite vampire prep school in Manhattan, sixteen-year-old vampire socialite Lilith seeks revenge against Cally, a new student and "New Blood" Lilith holds responsible for the death of her close friend during a dispute that attracted heavily-armed Van Helsings.

 

Conrad, Liza
- High School Bites
Lucy Hellenberg is not your typical Pacific Cedar High student.  Because in between hanging out with her friends, hating her hair and her math teacher, and trying to decide whether she should dump her on-again off-again boyfriend, she has to deal with a father who refuses to go outside and a house that bears way too much resemblance to the set of The Munsters.  And that’s not all.  Lucy has just discovered that she’s a descendant of the Lucy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula- and that vampires really do exist (right here at Pacific Cedar High!). 


Cooney, Caroline B.-
The Vampire’s Promise
    Deadly Offer

The friendless Althea yearns to be a beautiful, popular cheerleader.  She gets her chance when she makes an evil bargain with the vampire.

    Evil Returns

Devnee makes a bargain with the vampire to gain beauty and brains… at the expense of her friends.

    Fatal Bargain

Lacey and her friends just want some fun.  And what could be more fun than spending the night in a creepy old house with a strange circular tower? A vampire lives in that tower, and he wants something before he’ll let them leave.  One of them will have to stay… and Lacy and her friends must choose the person who has to stay behind.

    The Vampire’s Promise

Collects the three volumes of The Vampire’s Promise in one book.


De la Cruz, Melissa
- Blue Bloods
    Blue Bloods
    Masquerade
    Revelations
    The Van Alen Legacy

Select teenagers from some of New York City’s wealthies and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

  

Duval, Alex- Vampire Beach series
    Bloodlust

At first, Jason Freeman enjoys his new high school, but later he notices too many strange events there which lead to a girl who washing up on the beach with a suspicious bite mark.

   
Initiation
Jason Freeman is getting the hang of DeVere Heights.  Then life from his past pays an unexpected visit in the form of his old friend Tyler.

    Ritual

Jason Freeman and another student are attacked by someone using a crossbow.  Jason suspects Sienna’s former boyfriend.

  
Legacy
Jason is totally in love with Sienna Devereux, but her parents are dead-set against the relationship.  Aunt Bianca offers Jason a proposition he can’t resist: if he transforms into a vampire- like Aunt Bianca did- he will inherit her wealth, her estate, and her power: her legacy.  And Jason is free to be with Sienna forever.


Fantaskey, Beth- Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.


Francis, Melissa McKenzie- Bite Me!

AJ, a teenage vampire, hides her identity from her new stempfamily- among which is her ex-boyfriend- and investigates the secrets of her heritage.

Gray, Claudia- Evernight Academy
         
Evernight
         
Stargazer

Sixteen-year-old Bianaca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca’s entire world.

Hahn, Mary Downing- Look for Me By Moonlight
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming by mysterious guest.


Jenkins, A.M.- Night Road

Battling memories and fears, Cole, an extraordinarily conscientious vampire, and Sandor, a more impulsive acquaintance, spend a few months on the road, trying to train a young man who recently joined their ranks.


Jinks, Catherine- The Reformed Vampire Support Group

Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them- until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

Kenner, Julie
   
The Good Ghouls’ Guide to Getting Even

Beth Frasier’s junior year of high school is going great until she is turned into a vampire, so now she is trying to find a way to end her nightmare and get revenge.

    Good Ghouls Do

Beth Frasier, very unhappy about her undead state, must find and kill the person who turned her into a vampire in order to get her life back, but bloodsucking seems to be catching on at Waterloo High and she must watch her back- especially since she turned her boyfriend and his only hope is to kill her.


Klause, Annette Curtis- The Silver Kiss

A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother’s terminal illness.


Mancusi, Mari-
The Blood Coven series
    Boys that Bite

Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her Goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently.

    Stake That!

Still reeling from having lost her chance to become a vampire, sixteen-year-old Rayne learns that she is destined to be the new Vampire Slayer and must go undercover to stop a maniacal member of the undead who seeks vengeance and power by spreading a fatal blood disease.

    Girls That Growl

Rayne McDonald, a goth vampire and vampire slayer, must go undercover as a cheerleader at her high school to find out what happened to the captain of the football team, who has disappeared, and to see if the preppy cheerleaders are really werewolves.


Marrone, Amanda- Uninvited

Jordan
’s life sucks.  Her boyfriend Michael dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself.  But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in.  Jordan can’t understand why he wants her, but she feels her resistance wearing down.  After all, her life now consists of her drinking alone in her room as he waits for the sun to go down.

Maxwell, Katie- Got Fangs? series
    Got Fangs?

Fran is in Hungary with her mom, who is a witch in a traveling psychic GothFaire.  Fran has the ability to read people if she touches them, but she does not see this as a gift.  Fran meets a guy named Benedikt, who happens to be a really hot vampire.  Benedikt claims that Fran is the only one who can lift his curse and redeem his soul.
   
Circus of the Damned
Fran just wants to be a normal teenager and go on a date with her boyfriend, who incidentally is a vampire, unfortunately life- and the craziness of traveling around Europe with a band of witches, mediums, and magicians- keeps intruding, along with the hundred-year-old Viking ghosts she accidentally conjures.


Mead, Richelle- Vampire Academy

   
Vampire Academy
    Frostbite
    Shadow Kiss
    Blood Promise

Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.

   
Meehl, Brian- Suck It Up

Morning McCobb is a vegan vampire who drinks a soy-blood substitute called Blood Lite. He believes staking should be a hate crime. And someday he hopes to march in a Vampire Pride Parade. He was also the first vampire to out himself and try to show people of mortality that vampires are just another minority with special needs.


Meyer, Stephanie-
Twilight series
    Twilight

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

    New Moon

When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a “cult” and changes in terrible ways.

    Eclipse

Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.

    Breaking Dawn

Although Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the power werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.

Pauley, Kimberly- Sucks to be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe)
When sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and the boy she has a crush on versus new friends and possible boyfriends in her mandatory "vampire lessons."


Pierce, Meredith Ann- The Darkangel

The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him.


Pike, Christopher- Thirsty no. 1

Alisa must get close to Ray to ensure her immortality and she falls in love.


Rees, Douglas- Vampire High

When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.


Robar, Serena-
Braced to Bite series
    Braced2bite

When Colby Blanchard is attacked and turned into a half-vampire, her senior year of high school becomes surreal as she vacillates between trying to save her life and worrying about losing her place on the cheerleading squad.

    Fangs4Freaks

As Protector of the half-blood vampires, Colby is called into action when her sisters in the newly established Psi Phi sorority house start experiencing ugly, unexpected attacks, either from a member of the Vampire Tribunal, or from a spy.

    Dating4Demons

Piper Prescott understands vampire politics, but ancient languages are a different story.  Hunter comes to her rescue and tutors her.  Who would have thought she’d ever have a boyfriend.  Hunter’s been studying her and is looking for more than a goodnight kiss- perhaps even information on Psi Phi and the prophecies revolving around “the Protector”.


Schreiber, Ellen-
Vampire Kisses
    Vampire Kisses
    Kissing Coffins
    Vampireville
    Dance with a Vampire
    The Coffin Club
    Royal Blood

The mansion on top of Benson Hill has been empty and boarded up for years.  But a new family has moved in.  A family that never ventures out during the day.  Who are these creepy people- especially the handsome, dark, and elusive Alexander Sterling? Raven, who secretly covets a vampire kiss, both at the risk of her own mortality and Alexander’s loving trust, is dying to uncover the truth.


Shan, Darren
- The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak)
   
The Cirque du Freak trilogy (Vampire Blood):
       
Cirque du Freak

Darren Shan is just an ordinary schoolboy who enjoys hanging out with his three best friends.  Then one day they stumble across an invitation to visit the  Cirque du Freak, a mysterious freak show.  Only two tickets are available, so they draw straws to see who will go.  As if by destiny, Darren wins one, and what follows is his horrifying descent into the dark and bloody world of vampires.

       
The Vampire’s Assistant

After traveling with Mr. Crepsley, the vampire who made him into a half-vampire, Darren returns to the freak show known as the Cirque du Freak and continues to fight his need to drink human blood.

        Tunnels of Blood

Darren, Evra, and Mr. Crepsley leave the Cirque du Freak and get a taste of the city, but when corpses drained of blood are discovered, Darren and Evra must confront a dangerous creature of the night.

   
The Vampire Mountain Trilogy (Vampire Rites):
        
Vampire Mountain

Mr. Crepsley leads Daren Shan on a dangerous trek to Vampire Mountain, the very heart of vampire world, to be presented to the Council, but an encounter with the Vampanese along the way means trouble.
         Trials of Death
Darren begins the Trials of Initiation to prove himself worthy of being a half-vampire, even as the clan’s blood foes, the vampaneze, gather near Vampire Mountain.

        
The Vampire Prince

Betrayed by Kurda and reeling from the brutal slaying of Gavner, the vampire’s assistant, Darren Shan finds himself branded a traitor and hunted by the vampire clan.
    The Hunters Trilogy (Vampire War):
        
Hunters of the Dusk

Darren Shan leaves Vampire Mountain as part of an elite force on a life-and-death mission to find the newly-risen Vampaneze Lord, who is set to lead the vampanzes into a war against the vampires.
        Allies of the Night
Algebra class, two old friends, and a creature with deadly hands test Darren’s determination as he travels to Mr. Crepsley’s home town to search for the murderous vampaneze.
        Killers of the Dawn
As his battles against the vampaneze continue, Darren Shan is framed as public enemy number one.
    The Destiny Trilogy (Vampire Destiny):
      
The Lake of Souls

The Lives of Darren and Harkat are at risk as they face monstrous obstacles on a desperate quest to the Lake of Souls.
       Lord of the Shadows
When Darren Shan returns home, he is met by old enemies and scores to be settled, and with destiny certain to destroy him, the world seems doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night.

      
Sons of Destiny

As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become the Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.


Smith, Cynthia Leitich- Eternal

When Miranda’s guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.


Smith, Cynthia Leitich- Tantalize

When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family’s vampire-themed restaurant, Quincie worries that her best friend, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.


Smith, L.J.-
Night World
   
Night World vol. 1
   
Night World vol. 2
   
Night World vol. 3

Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters- they live among us without our knowledge.  Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules… and falling in love breaks all the laws of Night World.


Smith, L.J.-
Vampire Diaries
   
The Awakening and the Struggle

Contains volumes one and two of the Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

   
The Fury and the Dark Reunion

Volumes three and four of the Vampire Diaries concludes the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl town between them.

    Nightfall
After returning from the afterlife, Elena is forced to battle an ancient evil when Stefan, her vampire boyfriend, goes missing.


Somper, Justin-
Vampirates
    Demons of the Ocean
    Tide of Terror
    Blood Captain
    Black Heart

When twins Connor and Grace’s ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate’s ship, and he is determined to find her.


St. Crow, Lili- Strange Angels

Dru’s psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the “Real World,” but now she must rely on herself, a “werwulf”- bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents and why.


Stine, R.L.-
Dangerous Girls
    Dangerous Girls: A Novel

After sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are turned into partial vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the “Restorer,” someone who can return them to normal.

    Dangerous Girls: The Taste of Night

Livvy Weller wants her twin sister, Destiny, to join her on the darker side as a vampire, but Destiny is determined to restore Livvy to her human condition and bring her back home to their family.

Vande Velde, Vivian- Companions of the Night
When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

Westerfeld, Scott- Peeps series
    Peeps: A Novel

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowningly infected.

    The Last Days

As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a “New Sound” band whose music seems to have paranormal power.
 

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