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Supernatural Romance: Vampires, Werewolves and Ghosts

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia.   Demon in my View              

17-year-old Jessica discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and with a teenage witch trying to save her from his clutches. 
 
Cary, Kate.    Bloodline                               
A British soldier serving in WWI makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander, who is now wooing his sister, is descended from Count Dracula.
 
Flinn, Alex    Beastly                                            
A modern retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
 
Hahn, Mary Downing.   Look for Me by Moonlight  
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine Inn run by her father and stepmother, Cynda feels isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
 
Klause, Annette Curtis.  The Silver Kiss                     
Zoe’s mother is dying, her father is becoming distant, and her best friend is moving away, leaving Zoe alone with her grief and fear until she meets and befriends a mysterious, pale boy. His mother is also dead, killed unnaturally 300 years ago, and he wishes to find her killer. 
 
Klause, Annette Curtis.   Blood and Chocolate            
Having fallen in love with a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her pack-mates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs. 
 
Leavitt, Martine.   Keturah and Lord Death             
After 16-year old Keturah follows a legendary hart into Lord Temsland’s forest, she becomes lost. Lord Death comes to claim her, but she is able to charm him with her story and gains a reprieve to find her one true love.
 
Mancusi, Marianne.    Boys that Bite                                  
Sunny was not meant to be turned into a vampire - that was supposed to be her identical twin sister, Rayne. Now, she has exactly one week to be turned back into a human, or she will live as Magnus' blood mate forever. 
 
Marr. Melissa.   Wicked Lovely                                 
17-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. Her life, her love and the fate of summer all hang in the balance.
  
Meyer, Stephenie.   Twilight Saga          
Bella is 17 when she leaves Phoenix and goes to live with her father in Forks, WA. She finds herself overwhelmingly attracted to an amazingly handsome young man, who turns out to be not wholly human.
 
Smith, Cynthia Leitich.    Tantalize                              
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas threaten the grand re-opening of her family’s Vampire-themed restaurant, 17-year-old Quincie worries that her werewolf-best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, may be a suspect.
 
Smith, L.J.    The Vampire Diaries                       
Two vampire brothers fight for the love of Elena, a high school senior.
 
Vande Velde, Vivian.   Companions of the Night.                 
When 16-year-old Kerry helps a young man escape from a group of men claiming he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. 
 
Westerfeld, Scott.    Peeps                                                
Cal is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.  
 
Whitcomb, Laura.   A Certain Slant of Light                  
After benignly and invisibly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her. Together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.

 

compiled by Jeri Cohen, May 2009