Den of Shadows, is a set of fantasy novels written by American author, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. The novels follow an interconnected group of supernatural creatures, such as vampires, ghosts, and shapeshifters. It is the predecessor of Atwater-Rhodes' five volume series, known as The Kiesha'ra Series. The novels included in Den of Shadows are In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror, Midnight Predator, Persistence of Memory, Token of Darkness, All Just Glass, Poison Tree, Promises to Keep and the books from the Maeve’ra Trilogy, Bloodwitch, Bloodkin, and Bloodtraitor. The Den of Shadows is also the name of Atwater-Rhodes' official site. The site was originally called Nyeusigrube, which translated to "den of shadows" in the books' constructed language.
Novels
1999 ''In the Forests of the Night''
This novel follows a woman named Risika, who was born under the name Rachel Weatere in 1684. She later changes her name to Risika, after she is turned into a vampire against her will. Three hundred years later, she must face her past, including a mysterious stalker whom she knows nothing about, to confront her future.
2000 ''Demon in My View''
Though nobody at her high school knows it, Jessica is a published author. Her vampire novel, Tiger, Tiger, has just come out under the pen name Ash Night. Now two new students have just arrived in Ramsa, and both want Jessica’s attention. She has no patience with overly friendly Caryn, but she’s instantly drawn to Alex, a self-assured, mysterious boy who seems surprisingly familiar. If Jessica didn’t know better, she’d think Aubrey, the alluring villain from her novel had just sprung to life. That’s impossible, of course; Aubrey is a figment of her imagination. Or is he?
2001 ''Shattered Mirror''
Sarah Vida, a witch, has set her sights on a vampire named Nikolas. The young witch attends high school like a normal teenager but meets and befriends Christopher, a vampire who is later revealed to be the twin of Nikolas, against the laws of the Vida coven. Although Sarah tries to break off the friendship with Christopher, she soon learns of his past and sets out to confront Nikolas but can she survive it?
2002 ''Midnight Predator''
Turquoise Draka lives in a world of vampires and shapeshifters. She once had a normal teenage life- a family, friends. Everything was perfect until she was made a slave by a vampire. Now that she is an adult she is a vampire hunter who has been assigned to assassinate a cruel vampire by the name of Jeshikah by going under cover as a slave so she may enter the vampire realm, Midnight, undetected. But little does she know that her new owner, Jaguar, may hold the key to freeing her from her tormented past.
2008 ''Persistence of Memory''
Erin Misrahe is a sixteen-year-old girl with an alter-ego named Shevaun. Shevaun is a dangerous and deadly alter-ego who appears in times when Erin is severely stressed. Little does Erin know that she is actually linked with a vampire and that the two switch bodies when Erin loses control, though neither can recall what happens during the episodes. Deciding to end this bond, Shevaun sets out to kill Erin.
2010 ''Token of Darkness''
After a car accident Cooper Blake now sees a ghost named Samantha, who wants more than ever to have her own body. Wanting to help her, Cooper sets out to find a way to help her get a body but little does he know that by doing this he will unlock the secrets of Samantha's past and put himself into grave danger.
2011 ''All Just Glass''
Taking place twenty-four hours after the events of Shattered Mirror, Sarah Vida's sister, Adia is sent out by their mother to kill Sarah now that she is a vampire. Due to Sarah's transformation, a war has broken out between witch hunters and vampires and can only be put to the end by the death of Sarah. Adia, who has always been loyal to the laws of her line and always makes the family proud, sets out to find Sarah but can she kill her own sister regardless of what she has become?
2012 ''Poison Tree''
Sarik is a tiger shapeshifter who is mediator at SingleEarth Haven Number Four. She accepted the position to help her escape her past. When a new mediator, Alysia, comes to join them, Sarik becomes suspicious. Little does Sarik know that Alysia also has a past she is trying to run from. After an attack on Sarik's vampire lover, Jason, by a suspicious Onyx bounty hunter the group is dragged into the middle of a disaster that leaves both Sarik and Alysia to decide what price must be paid to save the peaceful society that Haven Number Four stands for.
2013 ''Promises to Keep''
The novel was released on January 8, 2013 as part of "Den of Shadows".
The Maeve’ra Trilogy
The Maeve’ra Trilogy is a trilogy of novels that take place before the events of Midnight Predator.
2014 ''Bloodwitch''
Released on May 13, 2014 the novel tells the story Vance Ehecatl, a quetzal shapeshifter, who was raised by the vampires Jaguar and Taro in Midnight when he was abandoned as a baby. But an act a violence forces him to leave his home and he meets Malachi Obsidian, another shapeshifter who is against Midnight and the vampires. Malachi claims Vance is a bloodwitch and that Jaguar, Taro and Mistress Jeshickah, the leader of Midnight, are trying to control him and use his powers. Vance does not believe him but when illness starts to effect his friends, Vance begins to realize that his world is not as perfect as he thought and he must choose between the vampires who raised him or the shapeshifters who hate him.
2015 ''Bloodkin''
Bloodkin is the second novel in the Maeve’ra Trilogy and was released on April 14, 2015. The book follows 16-year-old Kadee Obsidian, a serpiente shape-shifter who has spent time with both the Serpiente and the Shantel after being taken from her human family as a sick child. Kadee and Vance, a quetzal shapeshifter who was first introduced in Bloodwitch, journey to the Shantel forest after learning that the Shantel are being held to account for the blood plague that infected Vance and others in Midnight. Among the Shantel with Vance, Kadee faces her and her guild's past, where her ideas of freedom and her knowledge of sins committed clash. When is it okay to go against one's principles? Do the ends justify the means? How much is one life worth, and when is the price too much to pay?
2016 ''Bloodtraitor''
Bloodtraitor is an upcoming novel in the Maeve’ra Trilogy that is set to be released 2016.
Omnibus
2009 ''The Den of Shadows Quartet''
The Den of Shadows Quartet is an omnibusconsisting of the first four novels published by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, In the Forestsof the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror and Midnight Predator respectively. The omnibus was published on August 11, 2009.
