Anne Bishop 
Heir to the Shadows 

In Heir to the Shadows, Jaenelle’s vampiric, adoptive father, Saetan, and her foster-family of demons shelter her. to restore her memory and emotional balance, they move to Kaeleer, where Jaenelle befriends the kindred animals with magical and communicative powers and gathers a circle of young Queens. She also heals Lucivar, Daemon’s half brother, who offers a brothers’ love and a warrior’s fealty. As she recovers strength and memory, Jaenelle resolves to restore Daemon and cleanse terreille. Bishop subverts reader’s expectations; the "darkest" powers reside in virtuous characters, demons and vampires are kindly, and Jaenelle’s adolescence is more comically normal than horrific. Her vibrant characters and descriptions will keep readers hooked, anxiously awaiting what promises to be a riveting conclusion.