Midnight alley by Rachel Caine

So claire has decided to take Amelies protection with her house mates knowing only problem is she has the beacelett to prove it and it can't ever be removed while your under protection. Hiding it isn't so easy especially when monica seems to want to be buddies and Amelie adds and changes your class lessons. The hardest lesson is taught by Myrin a vampire who is loosing the plot by the diesease all vampires will suffer if they can't find the cure. Myrin has a part cure but learning how to make it is difficult and Myrin can one minute be lucid and know everything and the next he wants to kill you, easy work then. Sam that's Michael's grandad is claire's watcher while she is with Myrin, but one dawn break Sam is hurt almost fatally but Richard Morrell is on hand to rush Sam to Amelie. It is claire however who has the pull the steak from his chest. Michael realises it was him who was target not Sam after the captain obvious article anyone could be after him. Then it's time for Claire to be honest with her house mates about the protection their not happy but seem to understand that choice at the time was little. Michael then becomes claire's watcher at Myrin's but that is after a run in with a very dangerous human. Jason Eve's brother who is not totally sain. That asside claire goes to her lesson with Myrin who has been caged for his own saftey. That's great until he breaks out in a fit of madness, claire calms in and the pair take the crystals he's made to cure vampires they work endlessly for hours and claire learns loads even a new language but the come down from the crystals is as bad as the sickness itself. Claire escapes taking the crystals with her. After that night Amelie sends word to not see Myrin for a few days, so life as it is in Morganville is almost normal. Except for the dead girl in their bin and the invite to Monica's party. Claire feeling reckless gives the invite to a geeky games player and tells him to spread the word she has no intention of going, not after the last party she went too. When she gets home it seems that her friends want to crash the party, so she agrees to crash. The party goes well except for the jocks trashing the house and Jason being there. Michael goes after him while Shane enjoys dancing with Eve and claire before ending up in a fight with some college guts who can't keep their hands to themselves. Michael still hasn't returned so they go to look for him finding all the debortury of a college party, they do however save a girl from being dated raped it makes claire sick not so long ago she was in that position set up by Monica. In the last room they find michael his vamp teeth out and a dead girl on the bed drained. Eve freaks and runs away Shane orders claire to leave but she knows Michael would never do that. She goes after Eve who Is under a tree in shock and crying. Shane comes to them and they leave before the police arrive carrying the drugged girl back to campus. Once there they have to get home and walking is there only option. But they are being followed one of the guys from the fight hits Shane round the head with a baseball bat and then worse still Jason appears there's a set too which ends with Shane getting stabbed. He's rushed to hospital, michael arrives and is quickly forgiven but the nurse at the hospital isn't nice there is something about her nut claire doesn't know what. She gets to see Shane for a little while then goes home to recieve a letter from Amelie about Myrin, she has to go to him she encouraged the only taxi driver in Morganville to take her, there Myrin is angry but calms as he reads the letter and tells her Amelie must want her to die, thankfully she doesn't they take
more crystals and set to work on making more. When she leaves pc fenton is looking for her, her friends have called her in as missing, she jumps in the car and soon realises things aren't right fenton is captain obvious, his wife the nurse and a few others are vampire haters they want them dead. Starting with michael, it also appears that Jason is involved in all this too and Travis Lowe the nice police man but he's only there as they have lowe's friend Hess, a fight ensures Michael turns up to save the day and oliver kills off the evil ones. Shane comes home from the hospital, Claire hopes that it is the last they have to face but in morganville nothing is ever simple and this is shown when CLaire's parents turn up to tell her they are going to live in Morganville and Mr Bishop joins her parents, bad side is Mr Bishop is Amelie's father and he's evil and so are his side kicks Ysander and Francois, what do they want and why are they threatening the some what calm of Morganville.