Huntress (Night World Series #7) » (Unabridged, 5 CDs, 5 hrs. 32 min.)

L.J. Smith is the bestselling author of the Night World and The Vampire Diaries series, and has written over twenty-five books for young adults. She lives in the Bay Area of California where she enjoys reading, hiking, and traveling. Her favorite place is a cabin in Point Reyes National Park.

The series takes place in a world similar to our own but one where vampires, witches, werewolves and shape-shifters live among humans without their knowledge. These supernatural races make up a secret society known as the Night World, which enforces two fundamental laws to prevent discovery: 1) Never allow humans to gain knowledge of the Night World's existence and, 2) Never fall in love with one of them.

Jez Redfern is unique. She's a vampire hunter...who's half vampire. Raised in the Redfern family, the girl with fiery hair and silvery-blue eyes was the undisputed leader of a gang of vampire raiders. Then came the discovery that shattered her life - her mother was a human. Now, Jez hunts her former friends, protecting humans from the Night World.

But when Circle Daybreak sends her on a search for one of the legendary Wild Powers, Jez has to rejoin her old gang. They want her back -- especially Morgead, the gorgeous green-eyed vampire who used to be her second-in-command. Jez wants to stay faithful to Hugh Davis, the human she loves. But Morgead swears he's her soulmate and he'll do anything to lure her back to the old ways. With danger and temptation around, Jez finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. And she's afraid that if she tastes blood again, she'll become the evil huntress she once was...

Children's Literature

Life is complicated for a seventeen-year-old vampire hunter. After all, you can't stop to phone home in the middle of staking the undead. To make matters worse, Jez Redfern is neither human nor vampire, but a hybrid who feels she's a freak, belonging in neither the Day World of humans nor the Night World of vampires, witches, and werewolves. Most humans know nothing of the Night World. And most vampires would kill Jez on sight if they knew the truth about her heritage. But Jez has no time for an identity crisis. The apocalypse is approaching, and only she can save humanity. She is aided by her resentful human cousin Claire, by an Old Soul named Hugh, and by the vampire Morgead, who is both Jez's soul mate and her most dangerous enemy. Jez is a brave and sympathetic heroine. Her suspenseful, intriguing tale will be welcomed by lovers of horror and fantasy, but may be too graphic for some pre-teenagers. From the "Night World" series.