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__Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love__ Edited by Trisha Telep, this book contains the efforts of 13 authors to portray the other side of love. Recently the world has been flooded with the romance aspect of paranormal relationships: larger than life, fate bringing two people together, conflicts between different supernatural races, and the ever present idea of soul mates. Twilight and teen paranormal dramas have been the main offenders, yet these authors have chosen to showcase the love of paranormal beings in a different light. Instead of sticking to the romance, this group of authors are finding the other manifestations that love uses. They are using a world of shadow and mystery to show how, in a chaotic world where anything is possible, people can reach out and make a lasting connection; and if that connection is called love, then they are providing us with a deeper understanding of this most complicated emotion - love

The Stories: A Taste "The Assassin's Apprentice" //Michelle Zink//: the descendant of angels gets revenge for the death of her family - with a little help from an assassin's apprentice. "Errant" //Diana Peterfreund//: A nun, a virgin from an old bloodline, and unicorns create a tale of friendship formed in fire. "The Spirit Jar" //Karen Mahoney//: Vampires, London, Rare books, oh my! A race to find just the right artifact. "Lost" //Justine Musk//: A girl must learn to find that which is intangible but vital to every person. "The Spy Who Never Grew Up" //Sarah Rees Brennan//: Peter Pan, now a Royal spy, meets up with one of Wendy's descendant. "Dungeons of Langeais" //Becca Fitzpatrick//: A heavenly protector, the unwilling companion, and a duty to protect. "Behind the Red Door" //Caitlin Kittredge//: A dare, a man who isn't what he seems, and fast passion fill this ghost story. "Hare Moon" //Carrie Ryan//: A young couple become separated thereby forcing the girl to the Church only to have her lover returned - altered by a virus that comes but once a moon. "Familiar" //Michelle Rowen//: A witch and her most peculiar familiar. "Fearless" //Rachel Vincent//: A banshee who has been forced off her diet. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Vermillion" //Daniel Marks//: Ghosts don't just haunt or help us to change our ways, sometimes they have other business to attend to as well. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The Hounds of Ulster" //Maggie Stiefvater:// 2 friends and a meddlesome fey who comes between them. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Many Happy Returns" //Daniel Waters//: Parental love lasting beyond death and the hope that comes with it.

<span style="color: #b6425e; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;">Author Biographies **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">S ****<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">arah **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Rees Brennan **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">'s first novel //The Demon's Lexicon//, a dark YA urban fantasy featuring magic, swords, and a cranky boy mechanic, was published in June 2009. It was nominated for the ALA/YALSA Best Books for Young Adults list, received three starred reviews, and a Carnegie Medal nomination. The sequel, //The Demon's Covenant//, came out in May 2010, and she is currently working on the third volume in the trilogy while being inspired by her muse - country music. She lives in Dublin, Ireland between a canal full of swans and a ba<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">kery full of muffins. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.sarahreesbrennan.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Becca F****itzpatrick** is the //New-York Times// - bestselling author of the paranormal thriller //Hush, Hush//. She graduated college with a degree in health, which she promptly abandoned for storytelling. When not writing, she's most likely running, prowling sale racks for reject shoes, or watching crime dramas on TV. //Crescendo//, the sequel to //Hush, Hush//, was published in November 2010. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.beccafitzpatrick.com]

**C**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**aitlin Kittredge** is the author of //The Iron Codex// trilogy for young adults, as well as the bestselling //Nocturne City// series, and the Black London series from St. Martin's Press. She collects comics, loves bad movies and good books, and is owned by two pushy cats. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.caitlinkittredge.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Karen Mahoney** gave up on her dreams of being Wonder Woman a long time ago, but has instead settled for being a writer of contemporary fantasy. This is her second published story about Moth, the teen vampire who made her first appearance in //The Eternal Kiss//. Her debut YA novel //The Iron Witch//, about a girl with iron tattoos and super strength (alchemy! dark elves! a hot half-fey guy called Xan!), will be published in 2011. She is British and currently lives in London. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.kazmahoney.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Daniel Marks** is the super secret pseudonym of a popular adult urban fantasy author. He lives in a highly classified and secluded location (a "house" in a "neighborhood") with his trusty bodyguard ("wife"), and a cabal of evil minions (some "dogs"). He's currently hiring for a loyal henchman ("gardener"). Apply at: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.velvetandnyx.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Justine Musk** is the author of the YA supernatural thriller //Uninvited//. She has also written the dark-fantasy novels //Bloodangel// and //Lord of <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bones //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">, about a race of men and women descended from fallen angels who go to war against demons - and sometimes each other. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.justinemusk.com]

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Diana Peterfreund** is the author of the four books in the Secret Society Girl series, the first of which was named to the 2007 New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age List and deemed "impossible to put down" by //Publishers Weekly//. Her young adult debut, //Rampant//, is a contemporary fantasy novel about killer unicorns and the virgin descendants of Alexander the Great who hunt them, and has been named one of the top ten children's books on IndieBound's Kids' Next List for Winter 2009. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.dianapeterfreund.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Michelle Rowen** is the national bestselling and award-winning writer of YA fantasy, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy. Her days (and some nights) are filled with writing about demons, vampires, shifters, faeries, and other worldly creatures who seem to want to tell her their tales. She's the author of the //Demon Princess// books for young adults, as well as the //Immortality Bites// and //Living in Eden// paranormal romance series. She lives in southern Ontario with two needy cats and a poster of Robert Pattinson. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.michellerowen.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Carrie Ryan** was born in Greenville, South Carolina and attended WIlliams College and Duke University School of Law. Her debut novel, the //New-York Times// - bestselling //The Forest of Hands and Teeth// (Delacotte Press for Young Readers, 2009), earned starred reviews from //Publishers Weekly// and //School Library Journal//and was listed as number four on IndieBound's Kids' Next List for Spring 2009. It was also a Junior Library Guild selection, a Borders Original Voices selection, and was nominated for the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults List. Her second novel, //The Dead-Tossed Waves//, is a companion to the first and was published in March 2010 with a third in the series scheduled for spring 2011. A reformed litigator, Carrie now lives and writes in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband, two cats, and a dog. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.carrieryan.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Maggie Stiefvater** is the //New York Times// - bestselling author of novels for young adults, including The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy (//Shiver, Linger,// and //Forever//) and The Book of Faerie series (//Lament// and //Ballad//). When she is not writing about homicidal paranormal creatures and teens, she is also an artist and a musician, claiming both harp and bagpipes in her list of talents. She lives in Virginia with her husband, two young children, two dogs who fart recreationally, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki. She's an unapologetic Scorpio. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.maggiestiefvater.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Rachel Vincent** is the //New York Times//-bestselling author of the Shifter series for adults and author of the Soul Screamers young adult series, about a teenage banshee trying to balance a normal high school experience with her new, secret supernatural world. A recent transplant into south Texas, Rachel has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and she consistently finds the latter to be more practical. Rachel is motivated by deadlines and chocolate, lives for a good pair of jeans, and is known to hand out mini-excerpts at random on her blog. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.rachelvincent.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Daniel Waters** lives in Connecticut with his family. He is the author of the Generation Dead series, which includes //Generation Dead, Kiss of Life,// and //Passing Strange. Generation Dead// was short-listed for the Sheffield Children's Book Award and was a 2008 //Kirkus// Best Book of the Year. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.danielwaters.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Michelle Zink** live in New York and has always been fascinated with ancient myths and legends. Never satisfied with simply reading them, she usually ends up asking, "What if?" sometimes asking only leads to more questions, but every now and then, when everything falls into place just right, a story is born. Her first book is one of those stories. //Publishers Weekly// called //Prophecy of the Sisters// "a captivating tragedy," and it was also named to //Booklist's// 2009 Top Ten First Novels for Youth. The second book in the //Prophecy// series, //Guardian of the Gate//, [was] published in August 2010. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|www.michellezink.com]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">All author's biographies were taken from the novel. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Telep, Trisha. //Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love//. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press Teens, 2010.