Misguided Angel by Melissa De La Cruz

After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the five remaining gates that guard the earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silver Bloods.

Back in New York, Mimi has been elected Regent of a crumbling coven. Struggling with her heartache over the loss of Kingsley and with her overwhelming desire to destroy Jack, she must focus all of her energy on a perilous new threat. Vampires are being abducted and their captors are planning to burn them alive online…for all the world to see. Help arrives in the form of Deming Chen, a Venator from Shanghai, who must untangle the web of deceptions before the killers strike again.

As the young vampires struggle for the survival of the coven, they uncover a deadly secret, a truth first discovered by Schuyler’s mother during the Renaissance but kept buried for centuries. And as the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler to a terrible choice that will ultimately map the destiny of her heart.

-Official website summary.

Vampires are becoming a pretty tired subject in pop culture as of late. The Blue Bloods series, however, has only been getting better with each installment. This series, which poses the theory that vampires are nothing more than fallen angels cursed to live out eternity on earth, is surprisingly original for it's genre. In this particular installment, I absolutely loved the new character of Deming Chen. She's a bad-ass Venator from Shanghai and will stop at nothing until she uncovers the truth. I hope her character pops up again.

Released this month was a follow up to Misguided Angel titled Bloody Valentine. This novella is comprised of three short stories that follow the lives of Oliver, Allegra, Schuyler, and Jack. Fans also (finally!) get to witness the bonding of Schuyler and Jack... but will everything go according to plan?

-Sam