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This week’s topic is a Halloween freebie, and since I did a recent post of books with witches, I thought for this post, I’d do:
Recent Reads With Vampires
1. Bane’s Choice by Alyssa Day
Series: Vampire Motorcycle Club (Book 1)
Page Length: 400
Publication Date: Oct. 27, 2020
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
Synopsis: When a centuries-old vampire in search of redemption meets a doctor who’s on a mission of her own, a searing, world-destroying passion is the last thing on either of their minds.
Minds can be changed.
A doctor with secrets of her own is drawn to a dangerous predator in this pulse-pounding paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Day.
What better way to hide the existence of vampires from humans than in plain sight? Thus, the Vampire Motorcycle Club was born. Bane, the 300-year-old vampire who leads the club, has fought for years to protect his kind. But the truth about vampires is not only that they exist, it is that they are creatures of pure desire. Conscience and restraint has been burned out of them by the process of Turning. Any woman Bane meets is either prey—or food.
Dr. Ryan St. Cloud finds out that vampires exist when one steals her patient out of the hospital right beneath her nose, leading her to question her own sanity. But when the dangerous man whose touch inflames her senses and whose gaze enthralls her comes to her for help, she is unable to refuse. Bane is a dangerous predator, but somewhere beneath his arrogance and power, she can see his heart—and she knows it could belong to her if she is strong enough to claim it. She is bound to a vampire, but loving her would be … Bane’s Choice.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository
2. The Vampire of the Prophecy by Victoria Jayne
Series: The Prophecy Trilogy – Book 3
Publication Date: Sept. 30, 2020
Synopsis: He’s spent enough time trying to right what wasn’t wrong.
Rori made the choice. Power over love. He will take the throne and be the emperor of vampires. At least, that’s his plan until someone ups the ante.
The threat is clear: back out or risk exposure to humans.
If the Council of Others finds out what they’ve done to protect Divina, it’ll mean the demise of all of them. However, it’s not just her secret that could get out. Witches, shifters, and vampires could be exposed. It’s up to him and his loyal guard to protect them.
Time is running out.
The new ruler of the vampires will be crowned upon the new moon and Rori suspects it’s one of the other contenders for his throne behind the threat.
On his quest to preserve life as they know it and follow his destiny, Rori gets a second chance. If they survive he could have it all: power, prestige, and love.
There’s only one throne. Find out who gets it all.
3. Burning Ash by N.J. Walters
Series: Forgotten Brotherhood (Book 3)
Publication Date: Sept. 21, 2020
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Synopsis: No one is more surprised than Asher, one of the oldest vampires on Earth, that he’s attracted to vamp hunter Jo Radcliffe. She’s smart, a talented slayer, and she’s gorgeous. Something about her pulls at him, like no one ever has before. For a man, whose name strikes fear in everyone—this is something new and intriguing. And quite possibly deadly, if she discovers his secret.
Jo has two things in common with the handsome Asher—they are both slayers and someone is messing with them in a very-much-trying-to-kill-them way. She’s not so happy about joining forces with a dude she doesn’t know. But he’s sexy as hell and really good at his job as one of the Forgotten Brotherhood, whose business it is to execute misbehaving paranormals.
She knows she’s bait in a larger plot to harm Asher and the Brotherhood. And there is nothing he won’t do, no line he won’t cross, to keep her safe—which may be the weakness that destroys them both.
4. Of the Blood by Cameo Renae
Series: Heir of Blood and Fire
Publication Date: May 14, 2020
Synopsis: One malicious prince. Two rival kingdoms. And an innocent girl caught in the crossfire.
Raised in a war-ravaged continent, temptation comes to Calla Caldwell in the form of a charming and mysterious stranger. Giving in to his intimate seduction, her world is forever changed by a single bite.
Calla quickly learns the handsome stranger is vampire prince, Trystan Vladu. His bite was an attempt to claim and save her from a plot of vengeance generations in the making. However, the claws of that ancient vendetta are scraping ever closer.
Thrust into a new nightmare by the Prince of the corrupt kingdom of Morbeth, Calla is captured, tortured, and starved in the dank confines of his dungeon. While in captivity, she takes part in a séance with a witch of light where she contacts a departed relative—a Princess of Incendia—who bequeaths a gift to Calla that will tip the scales of good and evil . . . if she can learn to harness it.
With a dark tapestry of secrets, lies, and murder unraveling around her, Calla must learn to embrace the power roiling through her veins, or be snuffed out by the strangling fist of a malevolent darkness.
5. Ghondatha by Emery Ayres
Series: The Garden of Night Trilogy (#1)
Publication Date: May 5, 2018
Synopsis: The power to love. The power to heed your own voice. The power to hope in a world of blood and shadow.
Yesterday morning, most of Saphrona Melioska’s family was executed. Today, at dawn, she and her brother’s widow would have followed them to the block. But something changed.
Saphrona doesn’t know who paid for their sentence to be commuted, but by that act of kindness, she and her hearth sister are exiled to the remote island of Ghondatha, where Saphrona’s only relatives live.
She has nothing to take with her but the legacy of ten generations of master sculptors, a family name beloved in the world of Art, and her own credo: there is goodness and beauty in everything.
Upon their arrival at Ghondatha, however, Saphrona and Leigh find that even ageless Ghondatha is not what it once was. The island has a new liege-lord, a nobleman from the lavish Amkadan Empire, with deep pockets and extravagant ideas about progress.
All Lord Gideon Bloodstone requires is that the villagers obey three laws: no one may leave the island; all who are invited to his nightly masquerades must attend; and those who are not invited must mind the curfew and stay home.
Who is this man who has stolen the last familiar piece of life Saphrona has left in the world?
Someone who will change forever how she defines that which is good and beautiful.
6. Dark Prince by Michelle Hercules
Series: Blueblood Vampires (Book 1)
Publication Date:
Synopsis: There are only two ways a human can cross the gates of Bloodstone Institute: as a familiar to one of the blueblood vampires who attend the elite school or as a snack.
I’m neither, but I have to get in at all costs. My brother made a big mistake, and now I have to fix it by stealing from the most powerful and cruel vampire to ever come to Bloodstone, Lucca Della Morte. If that wasn’t almost suicidal, I need to get it done before the spell concealing my human nature wears off.
But I forget that I’m only pretending to be a vampire. I’m still human and susceptible to Lucca’s dangerous allure. His darkness calls to my soul. His savagery makes my blood sing. I’m falling for the dark prince, craving him in a visceral way that’s frightening and exciting at the same time.
If he discovers my secret, he’ll destroy me. And yet, I can’t help wanting to get closer. I never thought I had a death wish until I met him.
Links: Goodreads | Amazon
7. The Dark Awakening by D.L. Blade
Series: The Chosen Coven (#1)
Page Length: 252
Publisher: Fifth Element Publishing
Synopsis: Get ready for a new kind of witch—she’s about to save humanity.
Haunting secrets, witches, vampires, werewolves, love, betrayal, & twists you won’t see coming.
Mercy’s life has devolved into a string of bad events. A brutal beating that nearly stole her life, a dangerous stalker lurking in the shadows, and a car accident, where the man who rescued her disappears right before her eyes.
But this man who she thought was a hallucination, tracks her down at a nearby cove, and claims they were once in love from another time. Another century. But Mercy has no memory of this world he shares, and instinctively doesn’t trust him. He also reveals to her a life-changing secret—she’s an ancient witch, vampires are real, and she’s destined to destroy them.
There’s also the troubling discovery that her blood is lusted after by the undead, and a sadistic vampire leader sets his eyes on her, and will stop at nothing until he takes Mercy as his own.
Mercy needs to fight. Fight for her life, fight to discover the truth, fight to remember who—or what—she really is before it’s too late.
8. Vampire Academy by Rachelle Mead
Series: Vampire Academy (Book 1)
Publication Date: Nov. 2013
Synopsis: ONLY A TRUE BEST FRIEND CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR IMMORTAL ENEMIES…
Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth’s magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires – the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa’s best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.
After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir’s Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger… and the Strigoi are always close by.
Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever…
9. My Blood Approves by Amanda Hocking
Series: My Blood Approves (Book 1)
Publication Date: March 17, 2010
Synopsis: Teenager Alice Bonham’s life feels crazy after she meets Jack. With his fondness for pink Chuck Taylors and New Wave, he’s unlike anyone she knows. Then she meets his brother, Peter.
Even though he can’t stand the sight of her, she’s drawn to him. Falling for two guys isn’t even the worst of her problems. Jack and Peter are vampires, and Alice finds herself caught between love and her own blood.
10. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Series: Twilight (Book 1)
Publication Date: Sept, 6, 2006
Synopsis: About three things I was absolutely positive.
First, Edward was a vampire.
Second, there was a part of him—and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood.
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight is a love story with bite.
Have you read any of these fantastic vampire romances? Would you recommend any others? Comment below!
Great list! I’ve only read Twilight from this list, but my most recent favorite vampire book was A Violet Fire by Kelsey Quick. It was such a unique premise, and I thought she did a great job with it. It’s on my list this week too.
Heres my post for this week: http://leahs-books.com/2020/10/27/ttt-spooky-not-scary-books/
Thanks! A Violet Fire sounds interesting. I’ll have to check it out! 🙂
Great list! I haven’t heard of most of these and I’m trying to read more vampire books, so I’ll have to check them out. One of these days I need to cross Vampire Academy off my TBR!
I never noticed how many vampire romances I read before I made this list. lol Vampire Academy is a good series. Hope you get to read it soon! 🙂
Well- no. Would never read a book with a vampire in it
I used to read a lot of vampire stories, but I guess it’s been a while — the only one here I’ve read is Twilight! Great topic. 🙂
Thanks! I love a good supernatural romance!
Aha, the only one I’ve read on this list was Twilight all those many years ago… But I’ve seen your reviews for a few of these and have them on my wishlist to check out! Looking forward to checking them out 🙂
Nice! I hope you like them! 🙂
Yay for the Twilight Vampires! I read Midnight Sun recently and that was fun.
Nice! Go Team Edward!
Vampires are making a comeback!! I’m loving it. 🙂 I recently read Immortal Rules by Kagawa and enjoyed it. Still need to finish the trilogy tho! lol
Ooooh, I’ll have to check that one out!
I haven’t heard of a lot of these but Of the Blood looks good!
I enjoyed it. It’s a bit dark and is a pretty quick read. 🙂