Looked upon as evil, Maverick is forever tormented for stealing his mother's blood magic ability before he was born. Unable to even control whether he wanted it or not, his father, Lucca, blames him for this action.Constantly being blamed for everything that goes wrong and without the proper guidance to develop the blood magic trait, he is sent to train with Orion.With Orion, he learns not only how to control his blood magic but learn why the past should remain buried and dead. Brought back, tempers only escalate between Lucca and Maverick to the point he attempts to end his father's life.Exiled from his coven, Killian takes him away via Evicka's orders, training him alongside his very talented daughter, Tamsin in secret. For years he spends with Tamsin, growing a very fond bond between them, it makes it harder when they are torn apart.Through his hatred, he becomes the first rogue pureblood vampire and with it, the desire to look out for only himself. Death is on the horizon and Maverick at the helm, ready to take down anything that stands in his way, including a very attractive succubus.

When Evicka is two, her mother and she are sent away to a safe house. Every coven leader wants them dead, especially her. She is the very first pureblood vampire hunter, a dangerous crossbreed to the rest of the vampire world.One night, a raid takes place in their home and Evicka is hidden away, while her mother stands against the intruders. A pureblood vampire takes her mother away, but she has no idea who it is.Her father has always been shrouded in mystery. Evicka has been told numerous times, that if she were to know her father, it would jeopardize both their lives. Every day she asks herself, why?It has been 200 years since the vampires made their presence known, enslaving humankind.Evicka plans on tracking down every coven leader and slaughtering them, including the King, until she finds her mother. But, not without raising a small army of hunters by her side.

Warning - this book contains some swearing and has a cliffhanger ending! Blood doesn't just make her who she is...it also makes her what she is. Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire isn't hard enough, Tessa's throwback human genes make her an outcast among her relatives. But try as she might, she can't get a handle on the vampire lifestyle and all the...blood. Turning her back on the vamp world, she embraces the human teenage lifestyle--high school, peer pressure and finding a boyfriend. Jared manages to stir something in her blood. He's smart and fun and oh, so cute. But Tessa's dream of having the perfect boyfriend turns into a nightmare when vampires attack the movie theatre and kidnap her date. Once again, Tessa finds herself torn between the human world and the vampire one. Will blood own out? Can she make peace with who she is as well as what?

Read Laura Wright's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A dark and sexy debut paranormal romance In the dark, fear and desire are one... Alexander Roman wants nothing to do with those of his vampire breed. Fate places him at the door of Dr. Sara Donohue, who is dedicated to removing patients' traumatic memories. But as their world's collide, Sara and Alexander are bound by something even stronger as one becomes hunter and the other, prey. And Sara's only chance of survival is to surrender to the final-and most unimaginable-desire of her life. Watch a Video

"Too bad the things that make you mad, are my favorite things."Cunning and agile, Adrasteia descends from a long line of assassins, her position within her vampire coven is one she doesn't take lightly. In fact, she's only revealed herself to make a kill and then resumes to hide away in the shadows. Always watchful, it takes one time, one moment of her stepping out of the shadows and into the glimmer of the full moon, for the Incubus King to lay eyes on her.Keegan's father, Bram was a tyrannical leader, who once ruled over the Dominion Plane, otherwise known as Hell.After losing his would-be wife to a pureblood vampire, the incubi, succubi, and the many other demons turned on their king, killing Bram. It was in Keegan's best interest, to also turn on his father in a split-second decision that earned him the throne. Ruling with an iron fist, but much more personable than his father, he's had countless succubi, but none compare to the one he lost.Will a vampire satisfy his insatiable desires?Or will she kill him in order to return to her beloved?

Orion has silently sat in the shadows, watching the centuries go by as he built an underground society that has kept hunters safe. The hunters had to relinquish their freedom above ground in order to keep them safe, that is why many did not follow him. Their deaths were imminent.Left to die in 1865 at the hands of Enos and Locaine, Orion was the first hybrid born of two hunters, solidifying the fact that their race could go on without the purebloods.After discovering that his ranger, Enock, had his plans foiled in killing a pureblood with blood magic, Orion learns that her name is Evicka and she is the daughter of Locaine. He wonders how she possesses the trait of hunters.He believes hunters and vampires can coexist, only once every last pure blood has been eliminated. Orion's goal; to speak with Evicka and learn everything he can about her. If they cannot come to terms, he has no problem killing the daughter of his enemy.Can the hunters and vampires coexist? Or will Orion raise the hunters from underground, taking back the Earth for the humans and killing Locaine for leaving him to die?

Petra becomes Synjon's savior after he is attacked by an evil vampire, but when she becomes pregnant with his child, Syn turns his back on her.