Jeaniene Frost

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Jeaniene Frost
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Frost at the Romance Writers of America Conference, July 2015, New York, NY
Born (1974-06-13) June 13, 1974 (age 49) [1]
United States
LanguageEnglish
Period2007–present
Genre Romance
Science fiction
Fantasy
Notable worksHalfway to the Grave
Eternal Kiss of Darkness
SpouseMatthew Frost
Relatives [2]
Website
jeanienefrost.com

Jeaniene Frost (born June 13, 1974) is an American fantasy author, known for her Night Huntress series and the Night Huntress World novels. Foreign rights for her novels have sold to twenty different countries. [3] [4]

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Bibliography

The Night Huntress series

The Night Huntress series is a completed Urban Fantasy Romance series published by the Avon imprint of HarperCollins Publishers between 2008 and 2014. [5] The series follows Catherine "Cat" Crawfield, a snarky and conflicted half-vampire college student who moonlights as a vampire hunter in a small Ohio town, until she meets a sexy and mysterious vampire bounty hunter named Bones who alters her views on the undead world for good. Later books follow Cat and Bones as the navigate their relationship and various dangers of the undead world. [6] [7] [8]

Series OrderTitleRelease DatePublisherISBNNotes
0.5"The Reckoning"August 25, 2009 Avon ISBN   9780062106322 Also included in anthology Unbound
1Halfway to the GraveOctober 30, 2007 Avon ISBN   9780061245084
1.5Happily Never AfterMay 28, 2008

July 19, 2011

Avon ISBN   9780062106346 Originally appeared in Weddings From Hell anthology
2One Foot in the GraveApril 29, 2008 Avon ISBN   0-06-124509-7
3At Grave's EndDecember 30, 2008 Avon ISBN   0-06-158307-3
3.5Devil to PayJune 30, 2009

August 23, 2011

Avon ISBN   0-062-10633-3 Originally published in Four Dukes and a Devil anthology
4Destined for an Early GraveJuly 28, 2009 Avon ISBN   0-06-158321-9
4.5One for the MoneyAugust 3, 2010NYLA ISBN   978-1-943-77259-9 Also published in Death's Excellent Vacation [9]
5This Side Of The GraveFebruary 22, 2011 Avon ISBN   0-06-178318-8
6One Grave at a TimeAugust 30, 2011 Avon ISBN   0-06-178319-6
6.5Home for the HolidaysOctober 25, 2011

November 5, 2013

Avon ISBN   9780062322043 Originally appeared in the print anthology The Bite Before Christmas.
7Up from the GraveJanuary 28, 2014 Avon ISBN   0-06-207611-6
7.5Outtakes from the GraveDecember 22, 2015NYLA ISBN   9781519762429 Anthology of outtakes and never before published scenes from books 1 to 4 of the series
7.6Grave Girls' GetawayJuly 1, 2021

January 4, 2022

Avon ISBN   9781641971935 Originally published in Hex on the Beach anthology

The Night Huntress: Bones' POV series

Series OrderTitle

Release Date

PublisherISBNNotes
1The Other Half of the GraveApril 26, 2022NYLA ISBN   979-8-433-28080-9 Initially serialized on author's website
2Both Feet in the GraveApril 18, 2023NYLA ISBN   978-1-641-97243-7

The Night Huntress World series

Series OrderTitleRelease DatePublisherISBN
1First Drop of CrimsonFebruary 9, 2010 Avon ISBN   0-06-158322-7
2Eternal Kiss of DarknessJuly 27, 2010 Avon ISBN   0-06-178316-1

The Night Prince series

Series OrderTitleRelease DatePublisherISBN
1Once BurnedJune 26, 2012 Avon ISBN   0-06-178320-X
2Twice TemptedMarch 26, 2013 Avon ISBN   0-06-207610-8
3Bound by FlamesJanuary 27, 2015 Avon ISBN   0-06-207608-6
4Into the FireFebruary 28, 2017 Avon ISBN   978-0062076403

The Night Rebel series

Series OrderTitleRelease DatePublisherISBN
1Shades of WickedOctober 30, 2018 Avon ISBN   978-0-062-69561-1
2Wicked BiteJanuary 28, 2020 Avon ISBN   978-0-062-69563-5
3Wicked All NightFebruary 23, 2021 Avon ISBN   978-0-062-69566-6

Broken Destiny series

Series OrderTitleRelease DatePublisherISBN
1The Beautiful AshesAugust 26, 2014 HQN ISBN   0-373-77905-4
2The Sweetest BurnJune 27, 2017 HQN ISBN   978-0373779710
3The Brightest EmbersNovember 28, 2017 HQN ISBN   978-0373789429

Anthologies and other works

Critical reception

Frost's novels have garnered mostly positive reviews and have been well received by critics and she has had multiple New York Times bestsellers. Her first novel Halfway to the Grave (2007) won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) in the Urban Fantasy category, Eternal Kiss of Darkness (2010) and Once Burned (2012) won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards for Best Vampire Romance, and the final book in the Night Huntress series Up From the Grave (2014) won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding. [10]

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References

  1. Jeaniene Frost on The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Paige MacGregor (October 16, 2009). "Interview: Urban Fantasy Romance Author Jeaniene Frost, Part 1". fandomania.
  3. "Author Interview With Jeaniene Frost". RT Book Reviews . Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  4. "Best Sellers: January 18, 2009". New York Times . Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  5. "Jeaniene Frost". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
  6. Frost, Jeaniene. "Halfway to the Grave" . Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  7. "Jeaniene Frost". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
  8. Frost, Jeaniene (2007). Halfway to the grave : a night huntress novel. New York: Avon Books. ISBN   978-0-06-124508-4. OCLC   182574237.
  9. Harris, Charlaine; Kelner, Toni L. P., eds. (Aug 2010). Death's Excellent Adventure.
  10. "Book awards: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award | LibraryThing". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2023-01-22.