Author Melissa de la Cruz is already hard at work on her next series of young-adult novels, The Court of the Last Princess, but before she launches Princess, she’s finishing up her acclaimed Blue Bloods series with Gates of Paradise and making a stop in Houston for a reading and signing session. For Blue Bloods, de la Cruz created a world of vampires descended directly from fallen angels, defeated soldiers in Lucifer’s war on heaven. Though not forgiven, they were shown mercy and banished to Earth as vampires. Now, as an elite race that lives in the shadows of high society, they work for an ultimate lasting peace with mankind, all the while fighting against Lucifer’s remaining loyalists. Gates of Paradise is a sprawling, witty epic centered on young Schuyler Van Alen Chase, the only living half-human/half-vampire in the world. Come see how the vampire war for heaven ends.
Thu., Jan. 17, 7 p.m., 2013
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.