Rachel Caine

Rachel Caine is the internationally bestselling author of thirty novels, including the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Morganville Vampires young adult series: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls’ Dance, Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools, Lord of Misrule, Carpe Corpus, and Fade Out, with five more to follow in 2009-2011. The series has been optioned for film, television and multimedia by prominent British production company Noel Gay Motion Pictures.

She also writes the bestselling Weather Warden series: Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air, Gale Force, and Cape Storm, with the final book in the series coming in 2010. She recently launched a third series, Outcast Season (Undone, Unknown, Unseen, Unbroken).

She has also written paranormal romantic action/adventure for Silhouette Bombshell, and her most recent paranormal romance novel, Athena Force: Line of Sight, was a 2008 RT Reviewer’s Choice award winner. She also published an original novel for the television show Stargate SG-1 (Sacrifice Moon) under the pseudonym of Julie Fortune in 2005. She previously published under the names Roxanne Longstreet and Roxanne Conrad.

She is a contributor to a number of Dallas publisher BenBella Books’ SmartPop anthologies of nonfiction essays, and had short fiction in several bestselling anthologies, including My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, Strange Brew (St. Martins) and Many Bloody Returns (Ace).

Rachel continues to work in corporate communications for a large multinational company based in Irving, Texas. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University.

She and her husband, award-winning artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Fort Worth.

Bio from official Website.

Morganville Vampires

When 16-year-old Claire Danvers arrives in the sleepy Texas town of Morganville for a parentally-enforced year at Texas Prairie University before heading off to MIT, her life takes a turn for the scary. First, the mean girls come after her, but a quick life-saving move to off-campus housing fixes that problem, and introduces her to three new friends: teen rocker Michael Glass, Goth Eve Rosser, and hottie/slacker Shane Collins.

But Morganville's got more secrets to reveal, starting with one very big one:

It's run by vampires.

The books in order:
Glass Houses
The Dead Girls' Dance
Midnight Alley
Feast of Fools
Lord of Misrule
Carpe Corpus
Fade Out
Kiss of Death (coming early 2010)

Weather Warden

Joanne Baldwin controls the weather. Sometimes. Wielding that kind of power as a Weather Warden (one of the three kinds of Wardens in the world -- in addition to Earth Wardens and Fire Wardens) means that you're never at a loss for a challenge, whether it's killer intelligent storms or a very angry Mother Earth out to get you.

But Joanne's got even more problems. Half the time, those who want to kill her are coming at her back ... from the same people who ought to be standing by to help her.

A whirlwind love affair with a super-hot (and super-powerful) Djinn named David brings her even more trouble, and enemies she can't really afford.

But in the end, Joanne Baldwin is the person you want to have risking her life for you ... because she won't hesitate to lose it in your defense.

The books in order:
Ill Wind
Heat Stroke
Chill Factor
Windfall
Firestorm
Thin Air
Gale Force
Cape Storm
Total Eclipse (coming August 2010)

Outcast Season

Once Cassiel was a Djinn ... an eternal, powerful creature with no liking for humanity. But one decision put her at odds with Ashan, the terrifying leader of the Old Djinn, and now she's that worst of all fates ... human.

And now dependent on the Wardens for her very existence.

As her life becomes entangled with the lives of her new Warden partners, Cassiel begins to change ... and learn what it means to care about others. When an ancient enemy surfaces to stalk Cassiel, the choice she made to become human begins to take on new, sinister significance ... for humanity itself.

The books in order:
Undone
Unknown (Feb. 3, 2010)

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