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Soul Bound

Sunny McDonald and her vampire boyfriend, Magnus, are on the run-accused of treason and wanted alive...or undead. And her twin is the slayer sent to track them down.

Rayne would do anything to save her twin sister, Sunny, from the Vampire Consortium dictator who wants her dead. Instead, she's been commissioned by Slayer Inc. to find Sunny and Magnus and deliver them to the Consortium...which Rayne knows means certain death. She also knows that if she and her boyfriend, Jareth, disobey orders, they are signing not only their own death warrants, but also those of every vampire in the Blood Coven.

As a rival slayer with a personal vendetta moves in, Rayne and Jareth must do something to stop her. So they embark on their most dangerous journey yet, deep beneath the streets of New York City and through the Gates of the Underworld. But when a greedy god demands the ultimate sacrifice, will Rayne be forced to choose between her sister...and the vampire she loves?

Reviewer: ReaderGirl
Review: May 20, 2012
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural, Vampires
Sunny and her vampire boyfriend Magnus are now on the run as they've been accused of treason. They are wanted dead or alive. Luck is not on their side as Sunny's twin sister Rayne is sent to track them down. Rayne has been ordered by Slayers Inc. to find Sunny and Magnus and give them to Consortium. But if she takes them there the Consortium director will kill them both. But want can Rayne do when if she does

Bad Blood
The newest Blood Coven novel-accompanied by edgy repackages of the rest of the series

Sunny McDonald is in the ultimate forbidden relationship. Her boyfriend Magnus is a vampire, and the leader of the Blood Coven. And when the Coven decides that Magnus needs a mate to be his co-ruler, Sunny's humanity puts her out of the running. The Coven's chosen candidate is Jane Johnson, a magna cum laude graduate of Oxford University who just happens to look like a vampiric supermodel.

Sunny is suspicious of a Rhodes Scholar who can't answer the most basic poli-sci questions, but Magnus brushes it off as petty jealousy. Still, when the Blood Coven goes to Las Vegas for a vampire convention, Sunny and her twin sister Rayne secretly tag along. And Sunny's not going home before she learns the truth about Jane. Because not everything stays in Vegas-especially bad blood.


Boys that Bite

Two sisters--as different as the sun and the rain. For one, getting into the Blood Coven is to die for. But for the other, getting out could be lethal...When Sunny McDonald gets dragged to Club Fang by her twin sister Rayne, she doesn't expect to find anything besides a bunch of Goth kids playing at being vampires. But when some guy mistakes Sunny for her dark-side-loving sister and bites her on the neck, she finds out that his fangs are real--and deadly.

Now, Sunny has less than a week to figure out how to reverse the bite, or else she's going to end up as the perpetually undead. And not only will she be a vampire, she'll also be bonded to Magnus--the bloodsucker who bit her--forever. And forever is a really long time...


Stake That

The edgy young vampire series continues!

A fresh voice and fresh blood-it adds up to one very sassy vampire series...

Sisters. They'll swipe your clothes, your boyfriends, your destiny. But it wasn't exactly Rayne's twin Sunny's fault. Magnus, a vamp hottie and coven leader, mistook Sunny for Rayne last month and bit her instead. Now they're doing the inter-species dating thing.

Turns out that for every generation, there's a Vampire Slayer-and this time around, it just happens to be Rayne MacDonald. Her first mission: infiltrate a seedy vamp bar downtown and expose its vampire owner for purposely spreading a blood disease he created himself-a task almost harder than passing trig.

After going it alone once, Rayne realizes she needs help. So Magnus sends his sexy Goth buddy Jareth to go undercover with her. And, frankly, Rayne wouldn't mind going under the covers with him. Maybe fate doesn't bite after all...


Blood Ties

"Dark, delicious and full of surprises, the Blood Coven series is like vampire candy." - New York Times.bestselling author Heather Brewer.

Officially back in the arms of her vampire boyfriend Magnus, Sunny finds she still can't forget the gentle mortal Jayden who once saved her life. When darkness threatens to steal his humanity, Sunny must make a choice: stay true to her love, or defy him in a desperate attempt to save Jayden's soul.

Meanwhile, the Blood Coven is gearing up its toughest fight yet. They are going head-to-head with a splinter group of Slayer Inc. that's regrouping in Tokyo, Japan--still determined to take over the world.

In dark blood bars and hidden temples, it'll be vampires versus slayers in a showdown that could not only cost Sunny her heart...but also her life.

Reviewer: ReaderGirl
Review: Jul 22, 2011
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural, Vampires
Sunny is back with her vampire boyfriend, Magnus. But on her way home from school one day, she runs into an old mortal friend, Jayden, who Sunny discovers she still has feelings for. Sunny discovers that Jayden is sick and needs her help. At the same time the Blood Cover has traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to stop a part of Slayer Inc. that is trying to take over the world. What happens when Magnus finds out about

Night School

After their parents' shocking revelation about their fae heritage and an attack on their lives, the McDonald twins are forced to hide out deep in the Swiss Alps at Riverdale Academy, a secret vampire slayer training facility. And with no way to contact their vampire boyfriends for rescue, they're going to have to play nice with the locals.

But when Sunny starts acting strange, Rayne realizes that there's more to fear at Riverdale than getting staked by the student body-leading to a showdown in Fairyland that may cost the twins their lives.

Reviewer: ReaderGirl
Review: Feb 11, 2011
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural, Vampires, Fae / Elves
Sunny and Rayne have just found out about their family heritage! Their parents have just told them that they are Faeries and the twins are forced to go to vampire slayer school to protect them. That way Sunny and Rayne won't be forced to go to the Faery world. So now they are vampires, vampire slayers, and Faeries, as if teenage hormones weren't enough to deal with. What can happen to these two sisters at a s

Girls That Growl

Third in Mancusi's hip, sassy vampire series, featuring the heroine of Stake That! She's a vampire. She's also a vampire slayer. (It's a long story.) And now Rayne McDonald, Goth girl, has to carry out her most deviant mission yet: trying out for the cheerleading squad. Rayne already has enough on her plate: her twin keeps whining about whether or not to go all the way; her mom's boyfriend is moving in; and her man, Jareth, who's now allowed out in the sun, has turned from a dark, brooding hottie vamp into a surfer dude. But this vampire slayer is still on the clock, and she has a new assignment. A member of the football team has disappeared-and her bosses at Slayer Inc. think the cheerleaders had something to do with it. Now they want her to infiltrate the squad and get the dirt. But first, she'll need an extreme prep makeover. If only they'd let her wear fishnets under that revolting uniform. Author Description Mari Mancusi works as a television news producer for the NBC station in Boston and has won two Emmys.

Reviewer: Zollyanna
Review: Sep 7, 2007
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural, Vampires
Girls That Growl is about Rayne MacDonald a Goth girl who is junior in high school. She happens to be a vampire slayer and a vampire rolled all into one what more could a hunkie vampire boyfriend ask for? On her first day back at school she is called to do work by Slayer Inc. to do an assignment the which she refuses to do but is pushed into doing by them telling her they would push the button that would send

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