Books in Darkness Falls series

When the disease spread through the world, people had no choice but to go into hiding. The Colony is hidden deep underground, far away from the vampires—humans that were transformed by the disease. The vampires are hideous, starving, and they will kill any human they come across. Seventeen-year-old Kayla is a Bellator, a warrior that protects The Colony. In order to survive, there are three rules she must follow: Rule #1—Never go out after dark. Rule #2—Always carry a weapon. Rule #3—No matter what, never EVER get bit. But what happens when the rules Kayla has always lived by can no longer apply? The Highers run The Colony and accept nothing less than perfection. One slip up can mean death. Kayla has always worked hard to follow the rules and strive for perfection. But during a moment of weakness, she lets her imperfections show. Her punishment is worse than death. She is chosen for The Gathering and is thrown out into a world full of starving vampires. No one has ever survived The Gathering, at least that’s what Kayla’s been told. But when she runs into a group who insist they were once part of The Gathering, Kayla discovers the Highers have been keeping secrets. Secrets that could lead to a cure

Welcome to Misery Bay, a quiet place, if you don’t count the horrific monsters, the strange disappearances, or the odd barbed wire fence surrounding the town’s lighthouse. Seventeen-year-old Austen Gillet can’t wait to graduate and get out of her small town. But when she finds her dad’s car abandoned on the side of the road with a dead woman inside, her world screeches to a halt. When Ezra, an enigmatic newcomer, arrives in town, Austen enlists his help to find her dad. Little does she know that Ezra has secrets of his own, and he’s not about to let anyone get in his way. However, Ezra’s secrets pale in comparison to those hiding deep in Misery Bay’s woods, in a place protected by Ian, the mysterious lighthouse keeper. After stumbling through a portal to another world and barely escaping with her life, Austen has to figure out who she can trust and who she can’t, before she disappears, too. Permanently.

Kayla knows she has to save the world from the vampire virus, but what she didn’t realize was just how complicated it could be. As the secrets to the cure start to unfold, Kayla realizes that not only will her strength be tested, but her willpower as well. Tough choices will have to be made. In the end, she must decide just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to get to a cure.

Austen Gillet thought that blowing up the portal was the worst thing that could happen to her. She was wrong. Now she’s trying to pick up the pieces of her old life while Ian adjusts to being trapped in the modern world, unable to go back to his home in ancient Greece. Any free time they have is spent trying to find the missing portal and capture any mysterious creatures that appear. But when a monster attacks another innocent person, Austen decides that maybe the dangers they’re facing are too much for her and Ian to handle alone. Maybe it’s time to ask for help. Soon the fragile peace Austen has tried so hard to cultivate crashes down around her and she realizes that sometimes the most treacherous things in the forest walk on two legs, not four.

After the portal swallowed the power-hungry head of a shadowy government organization, Austen thought she might finally get a break. A break from the fear, the deaths, and the danger that stalks them at every turn. She was wrong. Now that they have the technology to control the portal’s destination, Ian yearns to go home and finally be reunited with the father he lost over a hundred years ago, even though that would mean leaving Austen and the life he built in this world behind. But when a monstrous creature more horrifying than any other Austen’s ever encountered appears and wreaks havoc on the people of Misery Bay, she selfishly hopes Ian might stick around, at least a little longer, until they figure out how to destroy it. However, when that same beast goes after the ones she loves, Austen realizes she has to act quickly, before time runs out. And in order to save her town, her friends and family, and even herself, she just might have to step foot into the monster’s den.

Katriona Wilde has never wondered what it would feel like to have everything she's ever known and loved ripped away, but she is about to find out. When she inadvertently leads her sister and best friend through a portal into a world she's dreamed of for six years, she finds herself faced with more than just the frightening creatures in front of her. Kate's forced to accept a new truth: her entire life has been a lie, and those closest to her have betrayed her. Wilde's Fire is the thrilling first instalment of debut author Krystal Wade's urban fantasy Darkness Falls trilogy, already exciting critics with its intensity and immersive, unique world and concept.

"Hello, Katriona." Those two words spark fear in Katriona Wilde and give way to an unlikely partnership with Perth, the man she's been traded to marry for a favor. Saving her true love and protector Arland, her family, and their soldiers keeps her motivated, but the at-odds duo soon realizes trust is something that comes and goes with each breath of Encardia's rotting, stagnant air. The moment when concern for her missing sister spirals out of control, all thoughts of trust are pushed aside and she finds herself trapped by the daemon tricks Perth warned her of. When so many she's grown fond of die along the journey, will she still be Katriona Wilde, the girl with fire?