The Book

Bite Me!

HarperCollins
July 28, 2009

AJ Ashe isn’t your typical seventeen-year-old vampire—as if there is such a thing. Her ex-boyfriend—whom she’s still totally in love with—is now her stepbrother. A former classmate—who, um, she may or may not have turned into a vampire—is stalking her. And now, apparently, the fate of humankind lies in her little undead hands. Whatever happened to the good old days when all a vampire girl had to worry about was the occasional zit and hiding her taste for blood?

This book is made of awesome! Gena Showalter, New York Times Bestselling Author

A fun and fresh vampire novel. 5 stars www.TeensReadToo.com

An absorbing and refreshing page-turner - Publishers Weekly

Hi. My name is AJ Ashe, and I’m a vampire.

I’m also a high school senior. And to be honest, I’m not sure which is worse—being a teenager, or being a teenage vampire!

I can hear your thoughts right now. How on earth can you be a high school student and be a vampire? Doesn’t the sunlight get in your way?

Hardly. See, in my world, most vampires are part human. We’re conceived the old fashioned way. Vampire meets human, falls in love, hanky-panky, and nine months later we have a bouncing baby vampire/human. Sure, we can still suck the life out of you, we just usually choose not to. We’ve evolved. Well, most of us have, anyway. So things like sensitivity to daylight, garlic, crosses and silver are soooo last century.

What else can I tell you about my world? Let’s see, we take our hemoglobin from a can, our fangs are retractable (though mine tend to have a mind of their own), most of us have at least one super skill like speed, or night vision, and some really lucky vamps have the invisibility gene, but that’s really rare. (Which is a shame, because I’d totally rock at being invisible. And I swear I would only use it for good. Most of the time.)

Since we’re just as human as we are vampire, we also get to eat (I like my steaks rare, and my potatoes loaded), we breathe, and we have a heartbeat and slow-flowing blood. I guess it’s like being bi-racial, only we’re bi-species. Is bi-species a real word? Well it is now.

My mom just married my boyfriend’s dad, so now we’re living as brother and sister, but it’s not really working out so swell. And to make matters worse, I kinda-sorta-maybe-accidentally killed a classmate and turned him into a real live undead vampire—who’s thirsty for my blood. I blacked out so I don’t really remember. But he’s out there stalking me. I feel him watching. Why else would he be after me if I didn’t bite him?

The Sequel: LOVE SUCKS!

HarperCollins, Spring 2010

AJ Ashe is moving on. Sure she still has not-so-sisterly feelings for Ryan, her ex-boyfriend-turned-step-brother, but there’s a new vampire in town and his name is Alexander Archer. Caught between the desire to move forward with Sexy Lexy and being drawn to her past with Ryan, AJ thinks life couldn’t get anymore complicated. Yeah, right. When her mother’s pregnancy is threatened, it looks like AJ’s long lost father is the only person who can save her. But Dad’s help comes with a price. AJ is forced join the evil side of her family, and a very creepy shape-shifting demon is there to make sure AJ cooperates. All this and she’s still got to plan the prom. Being a teenager is tough, but being a teenage vampire just flat out sucks. Pun totally intended.

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