It’s about a young(ish) vampire named Leo, who accidentally awakens a war with a ghost on arguably the most important night of her life so far, and must team up with Mina (who is another ghost killed in the same fire), to try and defeat the evil spirit before it wreaks destruction on the town and the people within it. I know it’s a bit early to be thinking about Halloween, but if you’re looking for something delightfully spooky to pick up for it, this is the book for you. Will Leo have the chance to prove herself as a vampire before her Birthnight is over, or will she discover that there are no winners in the battle of undead versus undead? To stop him and try to undo some of the mess she’s made, Leo must team up with the orphan ghost Minna. And one sinister specter, the Orphanmaster, is poised to terrorize the living residents in a nearby town. Instead of killing one carefully selected victim, she’s created several ghosts from the orphanage residents. Frieda’s Home for Unwanted Children?īut an accidental fire causes more death and destruction than Leo bargained for. After all, who will miss an orphan from the bleak St. All Leo has to do is hunt down and kill her first prey, and she already has the perfect plan. Since Leo’s last rite of passage, her Grimwalk, ended with her losing her right leg and a good deal of her confidence, she’s hoping to redeem herself in the eyes of her mother, the fearsome Lady Sieglinde.

The Nevermoor series meets Hotel Transylvania in this dazzling debut middle grade adventure set in a world of talking spiders, living forests, and haunted castles about a vampire girl who wants to fit in but first must defeat an evil ghost.Īfter one hundred years of being a vampire, it’s time for Eleonora to have her Birthnight.

Rules for Vampires by Alex Foulkes