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Release Date:  August 7, 2012 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 40 minutes Narrator:  Cynthia Holloway Genre:  Romance/ Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Turned into a vampire against her will, 28-year-old Merit found her way into the dark circle of Chicago's vampire underground, where she learned there was more to supernaturals than met the eye - and more supernaturals than the public ever imagined. And not all the secrets she learned were for sharing - among humans or inhumans. Now Merit is on the hunt, charging across the stark American Midwest, tailing a rogue supernatural intent on stealing an ancient artifact that could unleash catastrophic evil on the world. But Merit is also the prey. An enemy of Chicagoland is hunting her, and he'll stop at nothing to get the book for himself. No mercy allowed. No rules apply. No lives spared. The race is on. Review: This is not a stand a...

Release Date:  November 2, 2011 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 18 minutes Narrator:  Cynthia Holloway Genre:  Romance/ Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Clouds are brewing over Cadogan House, and Merit the vampire can't tell if this is the darkness before the dawn, or the calm before the storm. With the city itself in turmoil over paranormals and the state threatening to pass a paranormal registration act, times have never been more precarious for the vampires. If only they could lay low for a bit... Then magic rears its ugly head when Lake Michigan turns black. The mayor insists it's nothing to worry about, but Merit knows a panic is coming. She'll have to turn to friends old and new to find out who's behind this, and stop them before it's too late for both the vampires and humans. Review: Nothing can be calm for long in the city of Chicago and while Merit is still reeling f...

Release Date:  May 13, 2011 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 25 minutes Narrator:  Cynthia Holloway Genre:  Romance/Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals - and they're camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan, are tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else. Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn't help that she can't tell who's on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who's...

Release Date:  August 14, 2018 Publisher:  Berkley Format:  ebook Pages:  352 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  As the only vampire child ever born, some believed Elisa Sullivan had all the luck. But the magic that helped bring her into the world left her with a dark secret. Shifter Connor Keene, the only son of North American Central Pack Apex Gabriel Keene, is the only one she trusts with it. But she's a vampire and the daughter of a Master and a Sentinel, and he's prince of the Pack and its future king. When the assassination of a diplomat brings old feuds to the fore again, Elisa and Connor must choose between love and family, between honor and obligation, before Chicago disappears forever. Review: I haven't finished the Chicagoland Vampire series but really enjoy it and didn't want to let the first book in this new series pass me by.  Even though I haven't finis...

Title:   Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires, Book 2) by Chloe Neill Publisher: NAL Format: paperback Pages: 368 pages Genre: Fantasy Synopsis:  Ten months after vampires revealed their existence to the mortals of Chicago, they're enjoying a celebrity status usually reserved for the Hollywood elite. But should people learn about the Raves--mass feeding parties where vampires round up humans like cattle--the citizens will start sharpening their stakes. So now it's up to the new vampire Merit to reconnect with her upper class family and act as liaison between humans and bloodsuckers, and keep the more unsavory aspects of the vampire lifestyle out of the media. But someone doesn't want peace between them--someone with an ancient grudge... (82) Review: Merit is back standing sentinel for house Cadogan. Torn between Morgan of House Nararre and her Master Eric Sullivan. Merit has a secret, she seems to have not fully integrated into a vampire, in fact the va...

Title:  Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel by Chloe Neill Publisher: ROC Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Genre: Fantasy Synopsis:   They killed me. They healed me. They changed me. Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but I was doing fine until Chicago’s vampires announced their existence to the world. When a rogue vampire attacked me, I was lucky he only got a sip. Another bloodsucker scared him off and decided the best way to save my life was to make me the walking undead. Now I’ve traded sweating over my thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan “Lord o’ the Manor” Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four-hundred-year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately he expects my gratitude—and servitude. Right… But someone’s out to get me. Is it the rogue vampire who bit me? A vamp from a rival House? An angry mob bearing torches? My initiation into Chicago’...