The first book in the Morganville Vampire series is called “Glass House”; it was published in 2006 by Signet and written by Roxanne Longstreet Conrad under her pseudonym Rachel Caine. It also happens to be my favorite book. It introduces the series' protagonist, Claire Danvers, sixteen "almost seventeen", an exceptional teenager who leads a spectacularly ordinary life. However, everything changes when she goes to Texas Prairie University in an advanced placement program. She is confronted by the perfect but horrible and slightly dark queen bee, Monica Morrell, the second she arrives. And after Claire makes her appear uninformed in front of some potential suitors, Monica wants revenge. After an incident that left Claire temporarily disfigured and partially unable to move, she decided that the college dorm might not be the safest place in Morganville. . So she grabbed the newspaper and went straight to the property listings: living off campus without Monica Morrel, she supposed, would be safer than living in a dorm with her and her friends. Claire only finds one list...