L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $12.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-31680-8
Lovely African-American Damali Richards is a "spoken word" performer with a complement of musicians and technicians in this first of a projected horror trilogy from Banks. As if this weren't fantasy enough, Damali is also a "vampire...
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L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $12.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-31683-9
In this follow-up to Minion
(2003), Banks proves that vampire novels, like their vampire characters, often spawn progeny all too much in their own image. Events begin precisely where they dead-ended in the first novel, with rock 'n' roller...
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L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-32030-0
In Banks's third overheated hip-hop vampire thriller (after Minion
and The Awakening
), Damali Richards, a vampire huntress (or "Neteru"), reconnects with her vampire lover Carlos Rivera, whom she thought was killed in the previous...
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L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-32408-7
At the start of Banks's seductive fourth Vampire Huntress Legend fantasy (after 2004's The Awakening
), former crime lord/master vampire Carlos Rivera bites his lover, hot hip-hop artist/gifted slayer Damali Richards, and she bites back....
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L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (487p) ISBN 978-0-312-33624-0
All hell breaks loose—literally—in the complex sixth installment of Banks's scorchingly hot-blooded vampire series (after 2005's The Forbidden
). Banks gets down with her multicultural cast, as deeply concerned with their...
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L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-35235-6
Weird energy is going down, and demon-killing Damali is not at all herself in Banks's seventh Vampire Huntress Legend (after The Damned
). Soon after Damali walks out on her soul mate, ex-vampire Carlos Rivera, she meets a mysterious stranger...
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L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-312-35236-3
Banks's sizzling eighth Vampire Huntress Legend (after The Forsaken
) explodes with the wrath of Cain, who burns with obsessive passion for the Neteru vampire huntress, Damali, and hatred for her new husband, Carlos Rivera. Completely turned to...
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L. A. Banks, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (491p) ISBN 978-0-312-35237-0
In Banks's sexy ninth Vampire Huntress novel (after The Wicked
), the first seal has been broken and Armageddon has begun. Lilith and her husband, the Unnamed One, are caught unawares while awaiting the birth of their angel-hybrid heir....
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L.A. Banks, St. Martin's Paperbacks, $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-94302-8
Dense with character backstory and paranormal quirks, this complex sixth Crimson Moon paranormal romance (after March 2010's Never Cry Werewolf) is no place for newbies to start. Newly retired from the military, Shadow Wolf Sasha Trudeau and her...
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L. A. Banks, Author St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (466p) ISBN 978-0-312-33622-6
All the necessary elements-legend, leather, lust-come together in the fifth book in Banks's Vampire Huntress series (The Bitten, etc.). Enter Lilith, deadly, dangerously sexy, and on a mission from the Big Bad; the Guardians have their work cut out...
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L. A. Banks, Author St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-312-36875-3
Though this 11th installment in Banks' Vampire Huntress Legend tale contains many interesting references to esoteric religious mysteries and features titillating S&M sex scenes, it will be difficult for the uninitiated to give a fig about the...
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L.A. Banks, Pocket, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0778-9
Bestseller Banks (Shadow Walker) packs plenty of drama, religion, the paranormal, and urban grit into this flashy series launch. Celeste Jackson has spent most of her 33 years battling grief, pain, and hallucinations. The last thing she expects is...
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L. A. Banks, Author, Tananarive Due, Author, Brandon Massey, Author . Kensington/Dafina $14 (312p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2382-1
Talented African-American authors Banks (The Shadows
), Massey (Don't Ever Tell
) and Due (Blood Colony
) explore ancestral roots in intriguing horror novellas. Banks puts a time-travel twist into “Ev'ry Shut Eye Ain't Sleep,R
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