2008
Residents of a sleepy northwestern United States town are shocked by a sudden violent crime that leaves an entire family dead—and, mysteriously, drained of their blood.

Six months later, terminally shy high schooler Cammie Passerini is struggling to fit in at her new school. She’s finally gotten up the nerve to go talk to the school counselor—but finds that no good deed goes unpunished as she accidentally makes an enemy of the school’s basketball star, Blake Marshall, who is also seeing the counselor but doesn’t want anyone to know. What’s his secret? The last thing that Cammie expects: he’s a vampire.

Suddenly, Cammie finds herself discovering a whole new world she could never have dreamed of—a world full of vampires and werewolves and fairies and magic, all of it real—and considerably dangerous, as Cammie soon finds out. Because while Blake may be technically dead, his past isn’t…

2006
Anabelle Emitan was on the fast track to fame, fortune, and overwhelming success. Born into a wealthy, prosperous and well-established family, she had everything a girl could want. She was good at magic, popular with the boys, and had her acceptance to the prestigious Coronet Academy of Magic in hand. Sure, she was the ultimate bitch queen of the universe–but all’s forgiven if you’re pretty, popular and prosperous, right? And she was. That was, until everything went down the drain following a prank gone awry.

Now she’s starting over at a new school (ancient, underfunded and dingy) with new friends (untalented, insecure, and mostly useless, when they’re not mad at her) and a new purpose in life: to get back at her ex-best friend, Filiana, who told on her about the prank by winning the Pan-Talamar Academic Magic Tourney and winning the grand prize of more money than anyone else at her school has ever seen.

Will she even manage to get her school into the tourney? Can she bring her ragtag group of teammates together? Will she learn to be a halfways decent person? Will Coraline refrain from killing her?

Well, we’ll see.