Jeaniene Frost (born June 13, 1974) is an American
fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or Magic (supernatural), magical elements, often including Fictional universe, imaginary places and Legendary creature, creatures.
The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ...
author, known for her ''
Night Huntress'' series and the ''Night Huntress World'' novels. Foreign rights for her novels have sold to twenty different countries.
Bibliography
The ''Night Huntress'' series
The ''
Night Huntress'' series is a completed
Urban Fantasy
Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in a contemporary urban area, urban-affected setting. The combination provides the writer with a platform for classic fantasy tropes, quixotic plot-elements, and unusual charac ...
Romance series published by the
Avon imprint of
HarperCollins
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Publishers between 2008 and 2014. The series follows Catherine "Cat" Crawfield, a snarky and conflicted
half-vampire
In Balkans, Balkan folklore, a dhampir () is a mythical creature that is the result of a union between a vampire and a human. This union was usually between male vampires and female humans, with stories of female vampires mating with male humans b ...
college student who moonlights as a vampire hunter in a small Ohio town, until she meets a sexy and mysterious vampire bounty hunter named Bones who alters her views on the undead world for good. Later books follow Cat and Bones as they navigate their relationship and various dangers of the undead world.
The Night Huntress: Bones' POV series
The Night Huntress World series
The Night Prince series
The Night Rebel series
Broken Destiny series
Anthologies and other works
*''Pack'' (March 9, 2009)
*''Night's Darkest Embrace'' (October 26, 2010)
Critical reception
Frost's novels have garnered mostly positive reviews and have been well received by critics and she has had multiple New York Times bestsellers. Her first novel ''Halfway to the Grave'' (2007) won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) in the Urban Fantasy category, ''Eternal Kiss of Darkness'' (2010) and ''Once Burned'' (2012) won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards for Best Vampire Romance, and the final book in the Night Huntress series ''Up From the Grave'' (2014) won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding''.''
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1974 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American fantasy writers
American romantic fiction writers
American women short story writers
American women novelists
Urban fantasy writers
American women science fiction and fantasy writers
American women romantic fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American short story writers