H.E. Edgmon

To save the only life he''s ever known, a tween vampire has to destroy it first in Defanged, a new speculative middle grade from author H.E. Edgmon.Lux Priddy is a regular 12-year-old: he goes to school, hangs out with his best friend, Emma, and loves to pet every dog he sees. Except for one little thing - Lux is a vampire. And even though vampires came out of the coffin and into the public eye before he was even born, not everyone is happy about it. So when a group called Vampirism Sucks develops a cure, most people are thrilled. Lux? Not so much.Humans might think his life is miserable, but he’s never known anything else. And he doesn’t think he even wants to be human. After all, what makes being a human better than being a vampire? After an epic escape out the window of a Vampirism Sucks facility, Lux finds himself in a secret underground vampire city - one filled with "bad" vampires, the kind his parents have always warned him about. But even though he''s been taught to fear them, the people of Nox Urbus are the only ones that seem to understand him. And when the so-called cure stops being optional, Lux is forced to make a choice: go back home and submit to the treatment, or stand up and fight a corrupt system for the right to be himself.

Sweet Tooth meets The Raven Boys in this queer young adult contemporary fantasy about what it means to belong from H.E. Edgmon.You can never go home?Every day, all across the world, inhuman creatures are waking up with no memory of who they are or where they came from?and the Caravan exists to help them. The traveling community is made up of these very creatures and their families who?ve acclimated to this new existence by finding refuge in each other. That is, until the morning five teenage travelers wake to find their community has disappeared overnight.Those left: a half-human who only just ran back to the Caravan with their tail between their legs, two brothers?one who can?t seem to stay out of trouble and the other who?s never been brave enough to get in it, a venomous girl with blood on her hands and a heart of gold, and the Caravan?s newest addition, a disquieting shadow in the shape of a boy. They?ll have to work together to figure out what happened the night of the disappearance, but each one of the forsaken five is white-knuckling their own secrets. And with each truth forced to light, it becomes clear this isn?t really about what happened to their people?it?s about what happened to them.