The Awakening - (Vampire Huntress Legends) by L A Banks (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

The second book in L. A. Banks's thrilling Vampire Huntress series featuring Damali Richards, a young African American woman who is all that stands between us and the enternal night.

There is a vampire war brewing in the underworld and at the center of it all is Damali Richards, spoken word artist and Vampire Huntress. But she is not just any Vampire Huntress, she is the millenium Neteru. A woman so potentially powerful that the vampire world is about to invoke a bloody battle that threatens to spill over onto her streets in order to posses her.

It's just a matter of who will get to her first.

Fallon Nuit, a rogue vampire, is one of the most powerful Damali has ever encountered and he has allied himself with the deadly Amanrath demons in order to claim her. But the Vampire Council has plans for her as well. And now an unlikely variable has entered into the equation, an ex-lover now turned vampire with an agenda of his own. And Damali must risk trusting him once more if they are to survive.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Minion, the first book in The Vampire Huntress Legends:

"[Banks is] wildly creative and invents a totally new and refreshing milieu."
-Fangoria

"Cutting edge wit and plenty of urban heat flies from the pages of this quick read."
-Philadelphia Sunday Sun

"Blade meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. . .A pulsating blood-booster."
-Kirkus

"With an exciting premise and a cliffhanger ending, this first book in a new series packs a powerful punch."
-Booklist

"Minion is an action-packed journey. . . If you enjoy Anne Rice, Blade or Buffy then Minion is the novel you have been waiting for."
-Tananarive Due, bestselling author The Good House

Review Quotes

"With The Awakening, Banks solidifies her intriguing, dark series as a project worth watching." --Booklist

"Again, Banks brilliantly combines spirituality, vampires, and demons (and hip hop music) into a fast-paced tale that is sure to leave fans of her first novel, Minion, panting for more but nothing seems quite as hot as the steamy, often tense relationship between Damali and Carlos...a newcomer to the vampire genre...[Banks] lends a fresh and contemporary voice." --Columbus Dispatch

"[Banks is] wildly creative and invents a totally new and refreshing milieu." --Fangoria

About the Author

L. A. BANKS is the author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series. She had a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a master's in fine arts from Temple University. Banks considered herself a shape-shifter. She wrote romance, women's fiction, crime and suspense, and of course, dark vampire huntress lore. She lived with her daughter in an undisclosed lair somewhere in Philadelphia.