Francesca Flores's The Witch and the Vampire is a queer Rapunzel retelling where a witch and a vampire who trust no one but themselves must journey together through a cursed forest with danger at every turn.
Ava and Kaye used to be best friends. Until one night two years ago, vampires
broke through the magical barrier protecting their town, and in the ensuing
attack, Kaye’s mother was killed, and Ava was turned into a vampire. Since
then, Ava has been trapped in her house. Her mother Eugenia needs her: Ava
still has her witch powers, and Eugenia must take them in order to hide that
she's a vampire as well. Desperate to escape her confinement and stop her
mother's plans to destroy the town, Ava must break out, flee to the forest, and
seek help from the vampires who live there. When there is another attack, she
sees her opportunity and escapes.
Kaye, now at the end of her training as a Flame witch, is ready to fulfill her
duty of killing any vampires that threaten the town, including Ava. On the
night that Ava escapes, Kaye follows her and convinces her to travel together into
the forest, while secretly planning to turn her in. Ava agrees, hoping to
rekindle their old friendship, and the romantic feelings she'd started to have
for Kaye before that terrible night.
But with monstrous trees that devour humans whole, vampires who attack from
above, and Ava’s stepfather tracking her, the woods are full of danger. As they
travel deeper into the forest, Kaye questions everything she thought she knew.
The two are each other's greatest threat—and also their only hope, if they want
to make it through the forest unscathed.
In the quaint town of Nightfall, Oregon, it isn't the dark you should be afraid of—it's the girls. The Lost Boys meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Treatment.
Theo and her brother, Marco, threw the biggest party of the year. And got
caught. Their punishment? Leave Arizona to spend the summer with their
grandmother in the rainy beachside town of Nightfall, Oregon—population 846
souls.
The small town is cute, when it’s not raining, but their grandmother is
superstitious and strangely antisocial. Upon their arrival she lays out the one
house rule: always be home before dark. But Theo and Marco are determined to
make the most of their summer, and on their first day they meet the enigmatic
Minnow and her friends. Beautiful and charismatic, the girls have a magnetic
pull that Theo and her brother can't resist.
But Minnow and her friends are far from what they appear.
And that one rule? Theo quickly realizes she should have listened to her
grandmother. Because after dark, something emerges in Nightfall. And it doesn’t
plan to let her leave.
A demi-god who refuses to cohabitate with humans accidentally falls in love with one in the first book of a pulse-pounding teen duology that’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Celtic mythology.
Neve has spent lifetimes defending the mortal world against the legions of hell
with her two sisters.
Unfortunately for Neve, in this lifetime, she is the only one of the Morrigan—a
triad of Irish war gods—still stuck in high school and still without her full
power. She’s been counting down the days until her eighteenth birthday, when
she finally gets to shed the pretenses of humanity and grow into her divine
power.
But then she meets Alexandria. And Alexandria is as determined to force Neve
into some semblance of teenage normalcy as she is haunted by her own
demons—both figurative and literal.
As they grow closer, Neve decides that humanity—and, perhaps, love—isn’t so
detestable after all. Which makes it all the more dangerous when she realizes
that something in Hell wants Alexandria, and it’s be up to Neve and her sisters
to save her before Alexandria’s past catches up to all of them.
Magic reigns, plots abound, and a new love might not conquer all, in this must-read finale to the epic Gargoyle Queen trilogy by international bestselling author Jennifer Estep.
Time is running out for crown princess Gemma Ripley. Despite being a cunning
spy and a powerful mind magier, Gemma hasn’t been able to track down the most
dangerous enemy her kingdom of Andvari has ever seen. Adding to her worries is
the Sword and Shield tournament. With gladiators flocking to the capital city
of Glanzen, Gemma can’t tell who is friend—or foe.
Determined to protect Andvari at any cost, Gemma hatches a bold plan, but
things aren’t what they seem. Soon, everything she holds dear is being threatened,
including her burgeoning relationship with Prince Leonidas Morricone.
With the kingdom she holds dear slipping through her fingers, Gemma will have
to conquer her fear and unlock the true secret of her magic—or watch her
friends and family die and her beloved Andvari fall . . .
