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Leslie Ann Peterson was born on 11 December 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania Wharton undergraduate program with a Master's in Fine Arts from Temple University. Under different pennames, she wrote over 40 novels, 20 novellas y some non-fiction books in a wide range of genres and. She mysteriously shape-shifts between the genres of romance, women's fiction, crime/suspense thrillers, and paranormal lore. She wrote as Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks. In 2008, she was the recipient of the Essence Magazine Storyteller of the Year Award, as well as the Best 50 Women in Business Award for the State of Pennsylvania. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Romantic Times Booklover's Career Choice Award for Paranormal Fiction, and in 2010 was named Living Legend by the Black Alumni Society of University of Pennsylvania. This full-time writer passed away in 2 August 2011.
Full Series List in Order
A Crimson Moon Novel
1 - Bad Blood (Apr-2008)2 - Bite the Bullet (Oct-2008)
3 - Undead on Arrival (Apr-2009)
4 - Cursed to Death (Oct-2009)
5 - Never Cry Werewolf (Apr-2010)
6 - Left for Undead (Oct-2010)
Dark
1 - Surrender the Dark (Apr-2011)2 - Conquer the Dark (Oct-2011)
Dark Avenger
1 - Finders Keepers (Oct-2008)2 - Losers Weepers (Dec-2008)
Neteru Academy
1 - Shadow Walker (Jan-2011)A Vampire Huntress Legend
1 - Minion (Jun-2003)2 - The Awakening (Jan-2004)
3 - The Hunted (Jun-2004)
4 - The Bitten (Feb-2005)
5 - The Forbidden (Jul-2005)
6 - The Damned (Jan-2006)
7 - The Forsaken (Sep-2000)
8 - The Wicked (Sep-2000)
9 - The Cursed (Jul-2007)
10 - The Darkness (Feb-2008)
11 - The Shadows (Jul-2008)
12 - The Thirteenth (Feb-2009)
Make it Last Forever (Nov-2004)
Multi-Author Series List
Scarface
Point of No Return (Mar-2007)Book List in Order: 37 titles
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The Forsaken
- Sep-2000
- / Urban Fantasy
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The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned str...
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The Wicked
- Sep-2000
- / Urban Fantasy
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Damali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after. There are bigger problems on the horizon. Eves son, Cain, has escaped his banishment in order to assume his fathers throne and is now the new Chairman of the Vampire Co...
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The Awakening
- Jan-2004
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A battle is brewing in the underworld, and at the center of it all is Damali Richards, spoken-word artist and vampire huntress. But she is not just any huntress; she is the millennium Neteru, a woman so powerful that the vampire world is about to sta...
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The Hunted
- Jun-2004
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Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a vampire civil war has cost Damali both her powers an...
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Make it Last Forever
- Nov-2004
- / Paranormal Romance
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An innocent mistake forces the beautiful Tara onto a mission to save herself from the dark fate that awaits her. Salvation comes in the form of a seductive biker with a heart of gold. But will surrendering to their ripe attraction unleash a danger ev...
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The Bitten
- Feb-2005
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"Tell me your darkest fantasy," she murmured. "Tell me what you really want..." She is a woman who lives between pleasure and pain--the pure, scintillating pleasure of the flesh and the kind of pain that has rocked the world and left it strewn wi...
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The Forbidden
- Jul-2005
- / Urban Fantasy
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The Body of a Goddess...with the Heart of Hell itself The devil is a deadbeat dad and his consort Lilith couldn't care less. A stolen embryo stirs in Lilith's womb and a plan pulses through her veins: to unleash her child from the gates of hell--a...
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Scarface, Volume 1
- Dec-2005
- / Suspense
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In the politically charged years of the early 1980s many immigrants escaped a nightmarish existence under Castro's rule and fled Cuba for America. One immigrant would cut a bloody path of destruction across the Florida landscape in a rampage fueled b...
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The Damned
- Jan-2006
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THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN IS THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL... Damali Richards knows all about a blood rush. The kind that happened when she first went skin-to-skin with former vampire Carlos Rivera. Or the kind that happened on the streets of Philadelphi...
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Natural Instinct
- Apr-2006
- / Horror
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Featuring contributions from Eric Jerome Dickey, L. A. Banks, Tananarive Due, and Chesya Burke, this gripping collection of sixteen stories takes readers to a nightmarish realm where werewolves stalk their prey, witches unleash unimaginable power, an...
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Ride the Night Wind
- Oct-2006
- / Paranormal Romance
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Dark dreams haunt Jose Ciponte, dreams of a woman so beautiful he aches for her-and a deadly enemy who stalks them in the night. And now those dreams have become a reality......
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Spellbound
- Oct-2006
- / Fantasy
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Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that questi...
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Vegas Bites
- Nov-2006
- / Romance
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What howls in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Welcome to the French Quarter, Sin City's premier casino, where the high rollers are vampires, the sexy showgirls are werewolves, and the lounge magician is a djinn. Beneath the sexy, sassy, smoldering action, dan...
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Point of No Return
- Mar-2007
- / Suspense
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Released from prison and planning to set sail to America, the sadistic yet honorable Tony Montana's van explodes. But Tony and the other passengers survive, taking shelter in the multimillion-dollar headquarters of one of Cuba's most vicious drug lor...
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Payback Is a Bitch
in Creepin'- Jun-2007
- / Paranormal Romance
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Welcome to a world of werewolves, vampires, demons and mere mortals, where, in the name of revenge, five women are about to live out their wildest fantasies--even if it means crossing over to that other side... Five of today's most provocative a...
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The Cursed
- Jul-2007
- / Urban Fantasy
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From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The Wicked comes a walk on the wild side with the ninth novel in the popular Vampire Huntress Legend series.The Chairman has been killed and now Lilith, Satan’s Consort, sits on the vampire throne as ...
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The Darkness
- Feb-2008
- / Urban Fantasy
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Darkness descends with the arrival of the Armageddon... After the battle at Masada, the Neteru team returns to San Diego believing forty-thousand demons had been eradicated and that Lilith's spawn has been killed. But somehow the treacherous little ...
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The Shadows
- Jul-2008
- / Urban Fantasy
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In the newest Vampire Huntress novel from national bestselling author, L. A. Banks, more than vampires are coming out to play. . . The Dark Realms are taking cover after an angel onslaught from On High. The Anti-Christ has been injured and the fou...
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Bite the Bullet
- Oct-2008
- / Fantasy
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Sasha Trudeau considers herself a soldier first and a werewolf second. But while her secret government-sanctioned task-force faces its greatest challenge so far, Sasha faces something much more primal: the undeniable pull of the moon--and her own des...
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The Thirteenth
- Feb-2009
- / Fantasy
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The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America's most-wanted terrorists following the gruesome demon battle that felled the Washington Monument and crashed the front doors of the White House. The Anti-Christ is posi...
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Undead on Arrival
- Apr-2009
- / Fantasy
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Just one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought she'd tasted victory. Orchestrating detente between the warring factions of the supernatural world had nearly cost her life--but it also opened the door to a future with Max Hunter...
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Cursed to Death
- Oct-2009
- / Fantasy
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Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau arrives at the scene of a murder, only to discover that a Fae creature has been killed -- in a whole new kind of way. What is the meaning behind this mysterious ritualistic killing? What did the victim do to ...
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Never Cry Werewolf
- Apr-2010
- / Fantasy
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The last fight between the werewolf clans spilled onto the streets of New Orleans -- and now the whole city's on red alert. Martial law has gone into effect. Mediums, ghost hunters, and other supernatural pundits have taken over the media, swarming t...
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Death's Excellent Vacation
- Aug-2010
- / Urban Fantasy
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The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith S...
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Left for Undead
- Oct-2010
- / Fantasy
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Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau earned a long vacation with her lover and fellow Shadow Wolf, Hunter, after the brutal wolf-like attacks that left New Orleans in an uproar. But when her team calls with news of vampire slayings, Sasha knows ...
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Shadow Walker
- Jan-2011
- / Fantasy
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Sarah Rivera has a lot going on in her life right now. It’s bad enough that she’s being shipped off to Temt Tchaas Academy also known as Neteru Academy, a high school for future Guardians of the Light who have special powers, but she has to go th...
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Surrender the Dark
- Apr-2011
- / Urban Fantasy
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National bestselling author L.A. Banks's electrifying new paranormal series is set in a sizzling world where Dark and Light are trapped in an eternal struggle for the fate of mankind. Celeste Jackson has fought all her life against a fog of halluc...
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L. A. Banks' Vampire Huntress: Dawn and Darkness
- Jun-2011
- / General Fiction
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- Follow the famed Neterus and the Neteru Guardian Team from the epic 12-novel Vampire Huntress Legend series as they take the fight against evil beyond the Armageddon. In the Dawn and Darkness graphic novel (collecting the four-issue series),...
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
- Jun-2011
- / Urban Fantasy
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Chicks are awesome -- and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt. Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and inte...
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Conquer the Dark
- Oct-2011
- / Urban Fantasy
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The rapidly approaching battle between Dark and Light threatens to destroy mankind in this action-packed new series from New York Times bestselling author L.A. Banks.Celeste Jackson never had much hope for the future -- and certainly never imagined t...
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Pearl's Knitting Adventure
- Oct-2022
- / General Fiction
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Join Pearl and her faithful companion Stitch a magical adventure filled with colorful characters, Aurora, Brioche and Lacey the Good Knit Fairy. Their travels take them to fun places, a farm with talking sheep, a shop that grows ice cream cones...
