Things become more complicated with Mary-Lynnette's investigation of the sisters, who are in fact vampire fugitives, when their notorious brother Ash arrives to collect them and bring them home against their will before the week is out, and before the Night World learns of what has happened and destroys Briar Creek to protect its secrecy. Burdock goes missing, and is later found dead. However, Mary-Lynnette's suspicions are aroused when, just as the girls arrive.Mrs. In the small town of Briar Creek, Oregon, Mary-Lynnette Carter and her brother Mark learn that their eccentric neighbor, Opal Burdock, will be having some relatives staying with her, namely her three nieces: Rowan, Kestrel and Jade Redfern. Poppy must now choose between succumbing to a painful death or living a new, secret life with James as a creature of the Night World. However, upon also learning of this, her best friend and secret love, James Rasmussen, comes to Poppy and reveals a startling secret to her: he is in fact a vampire and, as Poppy's cancer is incurable, he is the only one left who can save her.by turning her into a vampire as well, though doing so without permission is illegal. In the debut book of the series, a Californian teenager, Poppy North, learns on the first day of summer vacation that her consistent stomach pains are in fact Stage 3 pancreatic cancer, which is fatal. The series can be divided into two general but connected story arcs - the Soulmate arc (books 1-6) and the Wild Powers arc (books 7-10): The Night World series currently consists of nine finished books, with a tenth still being written. The books focus on instances in which these two main laws, punishable by death, are broken. However, there are two consistent cardinal laws: humans cannot be told of the Night World, and it is illegal to fall in love with one. The Night World allows for the torment, conversion and killing of human beings, within reason and with permission, though for the most part the citizens of the Night World are indifferent to humans.

All of these creatures maintain a code of secrecy, not allowing the human race to be aware of its existence due to lethal altercations throughout history. The series centers on the covert existence of vampires, witches, werewolves and shapeshifters, the coalition of which is known as the Night World.

2.3 Spellbinder ( Enchantress in the United Kingdom).

Dark visions by lj smith