Awakened

Awakened is the first Vampire Awakenings novel, following college student Sera, whose three years of self-imposed isolation are disrupted when she meets Liam, a man whose presence provokes responses she has been working to suppress. As the relationship deepens, Liam's own secret, his nature as a vampire, shapes the stakes of a romance that must navigate both the external dangers of his world and the internal ones of hers.

Meg Price narrates with the intimacy that the paranormal romance genre requires, giving Sera's cautious opening-up a gradual quality that keeps the emotional arc credible. The vampire mythology is deployed within a recognizable college campus setting, and Price's voice bridges the contemporary and supernatural registers without the jarring tonal shifts that can undermine less careful narrations in the genre.