COMPANIONS OF THE NIGHT (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Amazon.com Review\nThe romantic horror genre reaches a new level of complexity in this novel, which manages to be simultaneously thought-provoking and blood-curdling. Kerry becomes the unwitting accomplice of an attractive, mysterious boy on the run, only to discover that he is a vampire. Can she trust her feelings for someone so alien to her? Or has she been "seduced by the glamour of evil"? An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, this was called "a tingly thriller" by Horn Book\nWhen sixteen-year-old Kerry journeys into the night to retrieve her baby brother's stuffed bear at an all-night laundromat, she finds herself in the midst of a gang war, a kidnapping, a murder, and vampires. Reprint.