It's Rowdy Dawes's last year at Harcourt Autumn, a month-long sleepaway camp in Oregon for fledgling vampires. Unable to be trusted on their own, Rowdy and her fellow under-thirteens are supposed to take the month to strengthen bonds between clans, practice their various gifts, and better manage their often uncontrollable thirst.But Rowdy's final Harcourt Autumn will not be a bittersweet hurrah. After the death of her best friend, Leland, Rowdy's only goal is to bring his abuser to...

Snakes aren't the only desert creatures with fangsIt's been ten years since Baby-Blue de Lorraine joined their coven. Ten years of playing in bars with Luke, prowling for their next hunt under his watchful eye. Ten years of being left behind while the others go feed. Ten years of being the baby. And they've never killed anyone.Until now.When Baby kills the wrong person, one of Zedekiah's concubines, he's sent to trial to face The Elders for this thi...

CRACK OPEN THE COFFIN AND UNLEASH THE VAMPIRE.An ancient beast stirs in the shale beneath an oil rig. A dancer languishes in a lakeside cottage. A man swipes right, hunting flesh with a predator's patience. A woman reels from government-sanctioned body horrors.All queer. All ravenous. All vampires.Vampires have always been vessels of longing, craving not only blood, but sex, power, and the sanctity of the taboo. And what hunger is more righteously d...