The Vampire Huntress Legend Series

Title: The Vampire Huntress Legend Series
By day Damali Richards is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons. This is her legend.

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Minion
Minion

Minion (The Vampire Huntress Legend #1)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 320pp.
Pub. Date: April 29, 2004
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

Minion
Minion

Minion (The Vampire Huntress Legend #1)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 288pp.
Pub. Date: June 4, 2003
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night.

Here is an account of her legend. . . .

All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records.

But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons — predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music.

Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug — trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. These killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life’s blood has been sucked from the body. These bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before.

Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. But his unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces. Soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world.

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The Forsaken
The Forsaken

The Awakening (The Vampire Huntress Legend #2)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 320pp.
Pub. Date: December 28, 2004
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

The Forsaken
The Forsaken

The Awakening (The Vampire Huntress Legend #2)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 272pp.
Pub. Date: January 21, 2004
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

A battle is 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 huntress; she is the millennium Neteru, a woman so powerful that the vampire world is about to start a war — one that threatens to spread onto her streets — in order to possess her . . .

Fallon Nuit, a rogue vampire who is one of the most powerful Damali has ever encountered, has allied himself with the deadly Amanthra demons in order to claim her. But the Vampire Council has plans for her as well.

And now an unlikely variable has entered the equation: an ex-lover turned master vampire with an agenda of his own. Damali must risk trusting him once more if they are to survive.

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The Hunted
The Hunted

The Hunted (The Vampire Huntress Legend #3)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 592pp.
Pub. Date: May 31, 2005
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

The Hunted
The Hunted

The Hunted (The Vampire Huntress Legend #3)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 512pp.
Pub. Date: June 19, 2004
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

With Minion and The Awakening, L.A. Banks broke new ground in the erotic vampire milieu, dazzling readers with her intricately crafted plots and unforgettable characters. Now, Banks returns with another stunning tale featuring the Vampire Huntress Damali Richards . . .

Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. This millennium’s savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match.

But a war in Hell has cost Damali both her powers and her past love, Carlos Rivera. Still, Damali can’t let her grief stand in her way. Several gruesome deaths, starting with an American research team, have come to Damali’s attention in Brazil. The nature of the deaths leads Damali to believe that the killer is anything but human . . .

Unknown to Damali, the life of Master Vampire Carlos Rivera was saved by a most unlikely group: a band of monks also dedicated to fighting the Dark Realm. In exchange, they want Carlos to help stop the inhuman murders plaguing Brazil — and they will use Damali as bait if they have to.

Reunited, Damali and Carlos give in to the erotic passion they have fought for so long. Together, they are a powerful force. But Damali has made a terrifying enemy who won’t rest until the beautiful Neteru is dead . . .

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The Bitten
The Bitten

The Bitten (The Vampire Huntress Legend #4)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 480pp.
Pub. Date: December 27, 2005
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

The Bitten
The Bitten

The Bitten (The Vampire Huntress Legend #4)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 448pp.
Pub. Date: January 13, 2005
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead. Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Vampire Huntress Damali Richards and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned strategy has been developed — one that is powerful enough to destroy them both while the fate of the world hangs in the balance . . .

Now there is only one entity who can best Damali, send Carlos packing, and put the Guardian team at mortal risk. This powerful being was once banished into a forsaken land and possesses everything that would bring a Neteru to his or her knees. Now it’s not only Damali’s soul that she risks losing — but her heart . . .

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The Forsaken
The Forsaken

The Forbidden (The Vampire Huntress Legend #5)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 512pp.
Pub. Date: June 27, 2006
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

The Forsaken
The Forsaken

The Forbidden (The Vampire Huntress Legend #5)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 480pp.
Pub. Date: June 16, 2005
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection of her council-level vampire lover, Damali is called before the Council of the Neterus to answer for her actions. It is there that she discovers there are consequences even she could not foresee. She also learns that the consort of the Un-Named One, Lilith, has come up from the seventh level to set the affairs of the Dark Realms in order.

However, Lilith has a hidden agenda of her own and it involves the unborn child Damali thought had been taken from her. The news devastates Damali until a cold and deadly determination leads her to map out a plan for Lilith’s destruction. An evil force beyond recognition, Damali’s newest nemesis literally brings men to their knees.

But Damali will not be stopped — not even by someone as dangerously powerful as Lilith. It is a battle that spills over into the streets and involves the people Damali has sworn to protect, leaving fewer standing before it’s all over.

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The Damned
The Damned

The Damned (The Vampire Huntress Legend #6)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 544pp.
Pub. Date: January 2, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

The Damned
The Damned

The Damned (The Vampire Huntress Legend #6)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 496pp.
Pub. Date: January 24, 2006
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

The only way to heaven is through the gates of hell . . .

Damali Richards knows all about a blood rush. The kind that happened when she first went skin-to-skin with former vampire Carlos Rivera. Or the kind that happened on the streets of Philadelphia, when her crew took on the devil’s own. Now, Damali, Carlos, and the Guardian team are recovering in the Arizona desert, trying to hold it all together and find out how much love, and how much war, they still need to make . . . until the demon consort Lilith changes everything.

The Damned are seeping out from below, and a new contagion is spreading simply by touch. For Damali and Carlos, time is running out. With Armageddon near, the ultimate truths lie strewn from a shaken underworld to the pristine mountains of Tibet, where the two lovers will approach a pinnacle of power — and the scintillating, shocking secret of salvation. . . .

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The Forsaken

The Forsaken (The Vampire Huntress Legend #7)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 544pp.
Pub. Date: June 26, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

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The Forsaken

The Forsaken (The Vampire Huntress Legend #7)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 448pp.
Pub. Date: June 2006
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead. Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Vampire Huntress Damali Richards and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned strategy has been developed — one that is powerful enough to destroy them both while the fate of the world hangs in the balance . . .

Now there is only one entity who can best Damali, send Carlos packing, and put the Guardian team at mortal risk. This powerful being was once banished into a forsaken land and possesses everything that would bring a Neteru to his or her knees. Now it’s not only Damali’s soul that she risks losing — but her heart . . .

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The Wicked
The Wicked

The Wicked (The Vampire Huntress Legend #8)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 448pp.
Pub. Date: January 2, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

The Wicked
The Wicked

The Wicked (The Vampire Huntress Legend #8)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 400pp.
Pub. Date: February 6, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Damali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after.

There are bigger problems on the horizon. Eve’s son, Cain, has escaped his banishment in order to assume his fathers throne and is now the new Chairman of the Vampire Council. He is amassing a new army, which includes resurrecting one of the Neterus’ old foes the deadly Fallon Nuit. But Carlos isn’t about to let that happen.

The coming battle will be the battle to kick off Armageddon.

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The Cursed
The Cursed

The Cursed (The Vampire Huntress Legend #9)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 480pp.
Pub. Date: June 3, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

The Cursed
The Cursed

The Cursed (The Vampire Huntress Legend #9)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 512pp.
Pub. Date: July 10, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

The Chairman has been killed and now Lilith, Satan’s consort, sits on the vampire throne as the Vampire Council’s new Chairwoman. She raises all the dark covens, calling every major dark witch and warlock to do her bidding.

Her goal is to distract the Guardian team members while the unborn heir to the Dark Realms awaits his own birth. All Lilith needs now is Damali’s newly discovered angelic powers. That will allow her evil progeny to walk through the veil between worlds and take his throne as the true Antichrist.

Damali and her crew race to stop Lilith. However, raising not only the dark covens but also all vampires that have not been slain by Damali puts the world out of balance and kicks off the Armageddon.

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The Darkness
The Darkness

The Darkness (The Vampire Huntress Legend #10)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 352pp.
Pub. Date: December 2008
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

The Darkness
The Darkness

The Darkness (The Vampire Huntress Legend #10)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 512pp.
Pub. Date: February 5, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

After the battle at Masada, the Neteru team returns to San Diego believing forty-thousand demons had been eradicated and that Lilith’s spawn has been killed. But somehow the treacherous little creature got away. Just as had been prophesized at the dawn of the Armageddon, the anti-Christ has been born and will soon rise to power.

Rewarded for her creation, Lilith is given the daylight bite and power to make Councilmen day-walkers. Having Fallon Nuit and Sebastian able to withstand sunlight is a huge problem, especially when they are adding new master vampires at recordbreaking levels.

Meanwhile the dark realms are healing and adding to what had previously been wiped out — feeding off the dark energy of the newly created anti-christ who is only waiting to emerge.

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The Shadows
The Shadows

The Shadows (The Vampire Huntress Legend #11)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Page Count: 352pp.
Pub. Date: June 02, 2009
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

The Shadows
The Shadows

The Shadows (The Vampire Huntress Legend #11)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 448pp.
Pub. Date: July 8, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

There’s Nowhere Left To Hide . . .

The Dark Realms are taking cover after an angel onslaught from On High. The Anti-Christ has been injured and the fourth Biblical seal has been broken. Yonnie and Val, a strange combination of a daywalker and an angel hybrid, have joined Damali and Carlos’s team. And the two new Council Level vamps, Elizabeth Bathory and Lucrezia Borgia, are still in recovery from their last mission . . .

Seething in the underworld is the Unnamed One, so furious that he’s bringing the battle topside, unleashing a full-frontal assault on mankind for the offenses committed by the Vampire Huntress team. Now Damali and Carlos must address serious human casualties and collateral damage — all while the vampire councilman, Nuit, rebuilds Blood Music to become more than a record label, but a media brainwashing empire for the dark lord . . .

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The Thirteenth
The Thirteenth

The Thirteenth (The Vampire Huntress Legend #12)

Author: Banks, L. A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Page Count: 304pp.
Pub. Date: February 3, 2009
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

The final story in the now cult favorite Vampire Huntress series.

The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America’s most-wanted terrorists following the gruesome demon battle that felled the Washington Monument and crashed the front doors of the White House.

The Anti-Christ is positioned for emergence, the powers of darkness have released the pale horse of the apocalypse, and half the Neteru team is pregnant. Plagues from hell that ravage the country are being cited as stemming from bio-terrorism. The nation is under martial law. The Neterus and their team are underground.

If things weren’t bad enough the Dark Realm breaks the sixth Biblical seal, which plunges the world into perpetual darkness . . . and irrevocably into the Armageddon.

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Summary:


Title List:
1. Minion
2. The Awakening
3. The Hunted
4. The Bitten
5. The Forbidden
6. The Damned
7. The Forsaken
8. The Wicked
9. The Cursed
10. The Darkness
11. The Shadows
12. The Thirteenth


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