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Update: The voting is now closed. With 70% of the vote, Round 3’s winner is Griffin Sinta! He will advance in the Alpha Showdown. Welcome to the 2018 Alpha Showdown at Vampire Book Club where each year we crown the Biggest Book Badass in the paranormal world based on your votes. This is our eighth Showdown, but the competition is just as fierce as ever. Check out the bracket here. Round 3 features one of... 
Sierra Dean has a knack for snappy, sexy urban fantasy. Y’all know this is exactly in my wheelhouse (and not just because of Borrowed Souls—we could talk about oodles of sexy urban fantasy like the Fever series and the Broken Destiny books). My point is, when I tell you that you need to have Sierra Dean books on your shelves, I mean it. While we loved her Secret McQueen books, we know you want the new... 
Black Magic Bayou (Genie McQueen #2) Sierra Dean Published: Oct. 5, 2016 (Sierra Dean) Purchase: Amazon Review source: copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review Reviewed by: Amy Rating (out of 5): 4 stars Note: While this review will be spoiler free, it will reference previous books. If you haven’t started this series yet, check out VBC’s review of book 1, Bayou Blues. It’s been a few... 
The VBC team is full of fans of Sierra Dean’s books. Her Rain Chaser series definitely got our attentions earlier this summer with the release of Thunder Road. We loved the concept of a full pantheon of gods and their human flunkies. It was super good, and we recommended it. (Be sure to read Beth’s full review for more non-spoiler-y details.) We’re thrilled for the sneak peek at the cover of the second...
Thunder Road (Rain Chaser #1) Sierra Dean Published: July 26, 2016 (Sierra Dean) Purchase: Book Depository or Amazon Review Source: copy provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review Reviewed by: Beth Rating (out of 5): 4 stars What if the world as we knew it was still populated with gods? All of them, of every pantheon, keeping themselves occupied by interfering with humans, and creating petty... 
Geeky Giving just released its first monthly book bundle featuring original science fiction and fantasy works by bright stars within the genre fiction community. The charity bundles are available monthly and with 100 percent of the money raised going directly to Barrow Neurological Institute to research cures for Alzheimer’s, ALS, brain tumors, Parkinson’s Disease and more. In the February bundle you’ll... 
A Secret to Die For (Secret McQueen #8) Sierra Dean Published Dec.16, 2014 (Samhain) Purchase at: Amazon Review source: purchased Reviewed by: Krista Rating (out of 5): 3 stars Note: While this review will be spoiler free, it does reference events from previous books in the series. I have been with Secret since Something Secret This Way Comes back in 2011. What I found was an interesting character and an... 
Bayou Blues (Genie McQueen #1) Sierra Dean Published: March 20, 2015 (Sierra Dean) Purchase: Amazon Review source: copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review Reviewed by: Amy Rating (out of 5): 4 stars Three years ago Genie’s sister (some of you may know her: Secret McQueen) averted the apocalypse and in the process the supernatural community was outed to the general population. Being... 
Cold Hard Secret (Secret McQueen #7) Sierra Dean Published: July 1, 2014 (Samhain) Purchase: Amazon Review source: copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review Reviewed by: Krista Rating (out of 5): 4 Stars Note: While this review will be spoiler free, it does reference events from previous books in the series It’s been two months since Secret was rescued from the Doctor and his torturous... 
We’re not ready to say goodbye to Secret McQueen, but the release of the eighth and final book is set for December 2014. Sierra Dean has always packed an emotional punch with this urban fantasy series, and from the tagline for A Secret to Die For—”No one is safe”—it looks like the final book will give us all the feelings. While I can’t share any snippets from the book just yet, I can give you this... 
