Contemporary Paranormal Romances

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Edge of Twilight
By Maggie Shayne
ROMANCE SHAYNE
In order to quench his thirst for revenge, Edge, the last of the Immortals, joins forces with Amber Lily, the only half human, half vampire ever born, to destroy the enemy--an alliance that plunges them into a dark realm of evil where passion is the key to their survival.

Blue Moon
By Lori Handeland
ROMANCE HANDELAN
When the wolf population of Miniwa, Wisconsin begins to stalk human prey, officer Jessie McQuade enlists professor Will Cadotte, a Native American activist, to help her investigate. As Jessie follows the trail to the shocking truth, she'll have to decide who she can trust when the moon is full.

How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
By Kerry Sparks
ROMANCE SPARKS
On the run from the Russian mob after witnessing a brutal murder, dentist Shanna Whelan is rescued from certain death by Roman Draganesti, a charming and wealthy vampire in search of a dentist who can repair his broken fang.

Dates from Hell
ROMANCE STORIES DATES
Four popular romance authors explore the seductive and dangerous world of the supernatural in four sensuous tales of romance with demon lovers, werewolves, and the undead.

Undone
By Rachel Caine
SCI-FI Outcast #1
Once she was Cassiel, a Djinn of limitless power. Now, she has been reshaped in human flesh as a punishment for defying her master. Cursed to live among mortals, Cassiel finds refuge among the Weather Wardens until she encounters an evil force that threatens the family she has become closest to, forcing her to realize that her perceived human weaknesses may be her greatest strengths.

City of Bones
By Cassandra Claire
YA F CLARE #1
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.

Thrilling Supernatural Adventures for Teens

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• Adventure
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The Named
By Marianne Curley
YA F CURLEY
As one of the Named, 16-year-old Ethan is charged with secretly protecting history from the Order of Chaos, an evil group that seeks to alter the past to achieve ultimate power in the present. Ethan is given orders to train his first apprentice, 15-year-old Isabel Becket, in a few short weeks. Soon, though, history and lives are at stake.

The Secret Hour
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFE
Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. Time freezes. Nobody moves. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour. But Jessica Day is not like the other “Midnighters.” The dark creatures sense a hidden power in Jessica, and they're determined to stop her before she can use it.

City of Bones
By Cassandra Clare
YA F CLARE
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray witnesses a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons, the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing--not even a smear of blood--to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy? This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Soon, Clary is pulled into their world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon.

The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins
YA F COLLINS
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before — and survival, for her, is second nature. (This doesn’t have any supernatural elements but it sure is thrilling!)

Teen Books Featuring Angels

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• Paranormal/Supernatural books

Halo
By Alexandra Adornetto
YA F ADORNETT
When three angels are sent from heaven to protect the town of Venus Cove against the gathering forces of darkness, their mission is threatened as the youngest angel, Bethany, enrolls in high school and falls in love with another student.

Crescendo
By Becca Fitzpatrick
YA F FITZPATR
In this sequel to Hush, Hush, sixteen-year-old Nora Grey struggles to face the truth while coping with having a fallen angel boyfriend named Patch and unraveling the mystery surrounding her father’s death.

Meridian
By Amber Kizer
YA F KIZER
On her sixteenth birthday, Meridian is whisked off to her great-aunt’s home in Revelation, Colorado, where she learns that she is a Fenestra, the half-human, half-angel link between the living and the dead, and must learn to help the human souls to the afterlife before the dark forces reach them.

The Prophecy
By Dawn Miller
YA F MILLER
Five gifted teenagers find themselves in the middle of a battle for mankind between the angelic forces of heaven and hell.

Eternal
By Cynthia Smith
YA F SMITH
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.

The Fallen
By Tom Sniegoski
YA F SNIEGOSKI
He’s been moving from foster home to foster home, and doesn’t know who he can trust. When Aaron begins to hear strange voices, he tries to resist his supernatural abilities, but must accept his newfound heritage-and quickly. For the dark powers are gaining strength, and are hell-bent on destroying him.

Supernatural Stories with Female Protagonists

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• Fantasy
• Strong female characters
• Suspense

Vampire Kisses
By Ellen Schreiber
YA F SCHREIBE
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

Undead and Unwed
By MaryJanice Davidson
ROMANCE DAVIDSON
After being killed in a car accident, fashion savvy Betsy Taylor becomes one of the undead and, with the help of her newfound friends, the lure of designer shoes, and a sexy vampire, must destroy a dark enemy and fulfill her destiny as the prophesied vampire queen.

Elsewhere
By Gabrielle Zevine
YA F ZEVINE
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."

Sunshine
By Robin McKinley
F MCKINLEY
All hope for stopping the vampiric elite from controlling earth depends on human SOFs (Special Other Forces) and the success of their attempt to recruit Sunshine, the daughter of legendary sorcerer Onyx Blaise.

Blue Bloods
By Melissa De la Cruz
YA F DE LA CRUZ
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

Fallen
By Lauren Kate
YA F KATE
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.

Paranormal Romance

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• Supernatural characters
• Romance

Wicked Lovely
By Melissa Marr
YA F MARR
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

Night Play
By Sherrilyn Kenyon
ROMANCE KENYON
Fed up with men and romance, Bride McTierney never expected to find herself falling in love with Vane Kattalakis, a tortured and mysterious man who just happens to be a Were-Hunter wolf on the run from his enemies.

Lover Eternal
By J.R. Ward
ROMANCE WARD
Fierce warrior and legendary lover, Rhage, a vampire cursed by the Scribe Virgin and owned by the dark side, finds salvation in Mary Luce, the innocent young beauty he has sworn to protect, and together they battle against their enemies and fight for eternal love.

The Witching Hour
By Anne Rice
F RICE
Rowan Mayfair, a neurosurgeon with special powers and the descendant of a dynasty of witches, is drawn to Michael Curry, gifted with strange powers after a near-fatal accident, as they seek to unlock the secret of their talents.

Warprize
By Elizabeth Vaughn
ROMANCE VAUGHN
The daughter of the Warrior King, Xyron, Xylara has trained as a healer to help those wounded in the war with the invading Firelanders, using her talents to bring comfort to both her countrymen and Firelander prisoners, never expecting that a handsome Firelander Warlord will demand her in exchange for a cease-fire.

Full Moon Rising
By Keri Arthur
ROMANCE ARTHUR
When her twin brother, Rhoan, an assassin who protects the innocent from evil supernatural beings, vanishes, Riley Jenson--a young woman who is half werewolf, half vampire--joins forces with a sexy but disoriented vampire to find him.

A Hunger like No Other
By Kresley Cole
ROMANCE COLE
Seeking revenge for years of torture from the vampire horde, Laclain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan of werewolves, abducts the ethereal Emmaline, a young woman who is half Valkyrie and half vampire, and finds himself falling in love with his captive.

Dragon Heat
By Allyson James
ROMANCE JAMES
When her strange roommate, a cranky fifty-foot dragon named Caleb, takes on his human form to protect her from those out to steal her magic and destroy the world, Lisa Singleton finds herself distracted from her mission to save humankind by this hunky warrior with the rippling muscles.

Gentlemen Prefer Succubi

By Jill Myles
ROMANCE Myles
After a one-night stand with a fallen angel and a vampire bite, Jackie Brighton wakes up in a trash bin with a voluptuous new body and an insatiable sex drive. With the help of Noah, her one-night stand lover, she learns to adapt to her new lifestyle as an immortal siren until she goes up against the vampirequeen--and the sexy man who turned her.

Weird YA

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Boneshaker
By Cherie Priest
SCIFI Priest
Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's teenage son Ezekiel impetuously decides that he must reclaim his father's name from the clutches of history.

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
YA F Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Unwind
By Neal Shusterman
YA F Shusterm
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

Leviathan
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F Westerfe
In an alternate 1914, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Numbers
By Rachel Ward
YA F Ward
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.

Epitaph Road
By David Patneaude
YA F Patneaud
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.

Historical Fantasy

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• Supernatural
• Strong characterization
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The Falling Woman
By Pat Murphy
SCI FI MURPHY
With her personal life in shambles for many years, and alienated from modern society, Elizabeth Butler buries herself in her archaeological work in Yucatan, seeking answers to how the Maya lived. In the process she conjured up the ghost of a long-dead Mayan priestess, who offers to help bring about a new cycle of the world if Elizabeth will make a sacrifice of her own.

Stardust
By Neil Gaiman
SCI FI GAIMAN
In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star for his lover, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester.

A Game of Thrones
By George R.R. Martin
SCI FI MARTIN
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes.

Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea
By Diana Marcellas
SCI FI MARCELLAS
Certain that she is the last shari'a witch on the planet, Brierley saves the life of a powerful Allemanii nobleman's wife, and in doing so, stumbles into a treacherous web of power and deceit that threatens her very survival.

Teen Contemporary Vampire Romances

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Vampire Kisses
By Ellen Schreiber
YA F SCHREIBER
Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true. Sequel: Kissing Coffins.

The Silver Kiss
By Annette Curtis Klause
YA F KLAUSE
One evening, when 17-year-old Zoe is sitting in the park contemplating her mother's imminent death due to cancer, her father's lack of support , and her best friend's move, she meets Simon. Simon is startlingly handsome and strangely compelling. As their friendship grows over time, Simon reveals to Zoe his true identity: he is a vampire.

Demon in My View
By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
YA F ATWATER-RHODES
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola has been writing vampire stories, but now she discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when Aubrey, a vampire from her novel, shows up as a new student at her school. Not sure what his intentions are, Jessica tries to figure out the reason for his existence.

Blue Bloods
By Melissa de la Cruz
YA F DE LA CRUZ
Schuler Van Alan and her best friend Oliver are treated like outcasts at their exclusive NYC private school. But things begin to change for Schuyler as she comes to discover the truth about her family and when Jack, a member of the popular elite at school, starts to notice her.

Clean Vampire/Werewolf Fiction

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• Vampire or Werewolf Fiction
• Clean Reads

Sunshine
By Robin McKinley
F MCKINLEY
Rae, nicknamed Sunshine, lives a quiet life. One night she is set upon by vampires, who take her to an old mansion, chaining her to the wall and leaving her with another vampire, who is also chained. Realizing she will have to save herself, Sunshine calls on powers her grandmother taught her. She frees herself and Constantine, her co-captive. Surprised, he agrees to flee with her when she offers to protect him from the sun with magic. They escape, but Constantine knows his enemies won't be far behind. A luminous, entrancing novel with an enthralling pair of characters at its heart.

The Silver Kiss
By Annette Curtis Klause
YA F KLAUSE
Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother. Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?

Wicked Lovely
By Melissa Marr
YA F MARR
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba Bray
YA F BRAY
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Young Adult Supernatural Horror

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• Horror
• Supernatural
  

Poison Ink
By Christopher Golden
YA F GOLDEN
Matching tattoos were supposed to bind Sammi to her four closest friends, but, worried about betraying her parents' trust, she backs out at the last minute. At school, her friends shun her and act out of character. Sammi discovers that the tattoos have expanded, taking over their bodies with pulsating lines of ink. Now it's up to Sammi to break the ink's spell. Sammi's discovery of the tattoo artist's intentions leads to a satisfying, violent and sad ending.

The Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson
YA F JACKSON
This is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

Doppelganger
By Marie Brenna
SCIFI BRENNAN
When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives? Mirage, a fierce bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets her mark. Miryo is a witch who has just failed her initiation test. She now knows that there is someone in the world who looks like her, who is her: Mirage. To control her powers and become a full witch, Miryo has only one choice—to hunt the hunter and destroy her.

Bitten
By Kelley Armstrong
F ARMSTRONG
Elena Michaels is a self-described "mutt," a werewolf who left her secretive pack in upstate New York for a life among humans. Her new life is jeopardized when she agrees to help her old packmates hunt some troublesome mutts who are converting common criminals to werewolves and leaving a trail of conspicuous carnage. Forced into brutally predatory confrontations, Elena finds the call of the wild subtly reasserting itself.

In the Forests of the Night
By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
YA F ATWATER-RHODES
Risika is a vampire of great strength and power, yet she hates and fears Aubrey, who was one of the vampires responsible for her transformation. The novel jumps between the present day and 300 years ago when Risika was a mortal named Rachel. While thinking that she was defending her twin brother from the evil beings, Rachel herself is taken and transformed into "one of them." Risika still remembers her former life and the morals she held as a human, yet has come to an understanding of her new life as a vampire and tries to find a balance between the two. She believes that Aubrey was responsible for the murder of her twin brother, and her need for vengeance is strong. But is it strong enough to defeat Aubrey?