The Dead Girl's Dance by Rachel Caine

Title: The Dead Girl's Dance
Series: Morganville Vampires, 2
Author: Rachel Caine
Publication Date: April 3, 2007.

Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

Rated 15+ for mild language & crude language, some sexual reference, implied sexual content (not in detail, just implied), drinking and drinking my a minor, drug use (drugging a girls drink at a college party),  some mature themes, and violence and gore.

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Taken by the Others by Jess Haines

Title: Taken by the Others Series: H&W Investigations 2
Author: Jess Haines
Publication Date: Jan, 2011

Once, New York P.I. Shiarra Waynest's most pressing problem was keeping her agency afloat. Now she's dealing with two dangerous, seductive vampires who have been enemies for centuries. The only thing Max Carlyle and Alec Royce agree on is that they both want Shia - for very different reasons. Max is determined to destroy Shia for killing his progeny, while Royce's interest is a lot more personal. That's not sitting well with Shia's werewolf boyfriend, Chaz. As the feud between Max and Royce gets ever more deadly, a powerful vampire-hunting faction is urging Shia to join their side. Shia has always believed vamps were the bad guys, but she's discovering unexpected shades of grey that are about to redefine her friends, her loyalties - and even her desires.

Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton

Title: Angelfire
Series: Angelfire 1
Author: Courtney Allison Moulton
Publication Date: Feb. 15, 2011

When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers - monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell - she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul.

A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her - an assassin who has already killed her once.

Rated 15+ for moderate language, some sexual reference. It also has a high amount of action violence, with a few gruesome scenes. There's one scene of underage drinking that was done at a party, it was alluded to, but not actually written about.

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Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton

Title: Quiche of Death
Series: Agatha Raisin 1
Author: M.C. Beaton
Publication Date: 1992

Beloved author M.C. Beaton has delighted readers and fans alike with her Agatha Raisin mysteries. Discover the first novel in the series that started it all 'TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE QUICHE'

Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town.

But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry, but falls over dead! After her quiche's secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth.

Rated PG-13 for mild language at times, mild to moderate sexual references, for some mild crude language, some scenes of mild drinking and smoking (all done by adult characters). It also has a mild dash of mature themes, along with a little bit of violence.

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