title: Rises the Night (Gardella Vampire Chronicles Book 2)
author:  Colleen Gleason 
description: In Gleason's latest, she returns to the budding career of Venator Victoria Gardella, a Buffyesque vampire hunter living in an Austen-style Regency world. Having spent the last year mourning the death of her husband, slain at the hands of the vampire queen, Lilith, Victoria is desperate for revenge. Before long, she stumbles on a vampiric plot to seize Akvan's Obelisk, a powerful artifact that will grant its controller the power to command legions of the dead. In order to foil the plan, Victoria crisscrosses Europe, teaming up with a handsome stranger along the way. A fast-paced carnival ride of a book, the sophomore series entry (after <i>The Rest Falls Away</i>) hits the ground running without any introduction to Gleason's world; for those new to the series, this volume will probably prove confusing. Those who've read the first title, however, won't be disappointed: Victoria is a more determined, fleshed-out character, having grown wiser, sadder and more ambiguous about the morality of her mission. Her world, too, expands significantly in this adventure. A tense plot line and refreshingly diverse supporting characters complete the package, giving series fans plenty to sink their teeth intoand plenty more to look forward to. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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   **Bleeding Dusk**
  
  _**The Gardella Chronicles 03**_
  
   **Colleen Gleason**
  
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  “Vampires have met their match with
  
  Victoria Gardella Grantworth, and the paranormal
  
  genre has met its next star—Colleen Gleason.”
  
  —Kathryn Smith, author of Night of the Huntress
  
  **Praise for The Gardella Vampire Chronicles**
  
  Rises the Night
  
  “A Buffy-esque vampire hunter living in an Austen-style Regency world…. A
  tense plot line and refreshingly diverse supporting characters complete the
  package, giving series fans plenty to sink their teeth into—and plenty more to
  look forward to.”
  
  —Publishers Weekly
  
  “Excuse me for one moment while I give Colleen Gleason a standing ovation. The
  second book in the Gardella Vampire Chronicles, Rises the Night, is a superb
  sequel in a series that is unique, sexy, and definitely very intense.”
  
  —Romance Reader at Heart
  
  The Rest Falls Away
  
  “Sophisticated, sexy, surprising! With its vampire lore a