Free (nook) Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey [YA Paranormal Romance]

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Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey is 1st in her YA paranormal romance Drake Chronicles, free courtesy of publisher Bloomsbury.

This is also the B&N Free Fridays selection for this week, and you can see what the author herself recommends for reading (B&N likes to ask the featured authors every week) over at the blog entry.

Currently free @ B&N. May or may not officially pop up elsewhere (Bloomsbury books tend to, but B&N may have arranged an exclusive).

Description
On Solange's sixteenth birthday, she is going to wake up dead. As if that's not bad enough, she also has to outwit her seven overprotective older brothers, avoid the politics involved with being the only daughter born to an ancient vampire dynasty, and elude Kieran Black-agent of an anti-vampire league who is searching for his father's killer and is intent on staking Solange and her entire family.

Luckily she has her own secret weapon-her human best friend Lucy-who is willing to defend Solange's right to a normal life, whether she's being smothered by her well-intentioned brothers or abducted by a power-hungry queen. Two unlikely alliances are formed in a race to save Solange's eternal life-Lucy and Solange's brother Nicholas, and Solange and Kieran Black-in a dual romance that is guaranteed to jump start any romance-lover's heart.