L J Smith is the phenomenally popular of the best-selling vampire sequence Night World - the recent revival of which has seen these enduringly popular novels become best-sellers over a decade of being in print. The final Night world novel, Strange Fate is to be published in 2010 by HCB. She is also the author of the four book sequence the Vampire Diaries - also available as two bind-ups. L J Smith has recently created her own website at www.ljanesmith.net and lives in California, USA.

The circle's power has lured her home Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witches that's controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she's drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that's both intoxicating and deadly. But when she falls for the mysterious and intriguing Adam, Cassie must choose whether to resist temptation or risk dark forces to get what she wants—even if it means that one wrong move could ultimately destroy her.