5-13-10 Glass Houses by Rachel Caine - Fiction

5 - OK, I'm on a little bit of a vampire kick right now. This is a story about a little Texas town called Morganville. Claire, a 16 year old college freshman, moves there for school and discovers what a strange town Morganville really is. Normal college towns have a very lively center around the school and then a quieter residential area for the locals. But Morganville's locals are strange. They never seem to go outside at night. They barely go out during the day and move quickly not stopping and chatting, not making eye contact. When Claire starts living off campus she learns what's different. Vampires. The town is run by vampires. And if you don't have a protector you're a free lunch. It didn't seem so strange before about the number of college kids who don't come back to school because it is mostly a transfer school, but now Claire sees it in a new light. And she's gotten on the wrong side of the daughter of the mayor, one of the most powerful human families. As if college wasn't tough enough already.