If you love Twilight or the Sookie Stackhouse books, you'll enjoy Tantalize. Quincie lives in Austin, Texas, where vampires and werewolves are quite common. In fact, her best friend and secret crush, Kieran, is half werewolf. To Quincie's dismay, Kieran's leaving town to perform an ancient rite-of-passage. Will his leaving tear them apart forever? Also on Quincie's plate: She and her Uncle Davidson are about to re-open her parents' Italian restaurant with a new vampire theme. Sanguini's, they're calling it. Just before Sanguini's opens, the chef is brutally murdered, and Kieran is now the prime suspect. This is the first book in the Tantalize series by Cynthia Leitich Smith.
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