Morganville, Texas

Morganville, Texas, is the fictional home of Texas Prairie University and the setting for the "The Morganville Vampires" series of young adult novels by Rachel Caine. While the town's mayor is human, to most of the population it is actually run in cooperation with a group of vampires. The town is home to an unusually large number of second-hand and thrift stores. [cite web |work=Vampire Genre |title=Rachel Caine: Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, Book One) |url=http://www.vampiregenre.com/2006/09/12/rachel-caine-glass-houses-the-morganville-vampires-book-one/ |date=2006-09-12 |first=Vicky |last=London]

Key locations

The Glass House

The protagonists of the novels are the four young adults who live in The Glass House.
*Michael Glass, the owner of the house, is 18 years old and the boyfriend of Eve. He is, after the events of "The Dead Girls' Dance", a turned vampire.
*Claire Danvers, the main character of the books, is 16 years old and a freshman at Texas Prairie University. She is exceptionally smart for her age, which causes a lot of people to dislike, or misunderstand her. During the series she begins to like Shane Collins more and more.
*Shane Collins is 18 years old and is Claire's boyfriend as of book 2, "The Dead Girls' Dance". In "The Dead Girls Dance" his father comes in and we learn a little bit more about his past.
*Eve Rosser is also 18 and works at Common Grounds Coffee Shop until book 2, "The Dead Girls' Dance". She is also Michael's girlfriend.

Texas Prairie University

A third-tier state university, often used as a starter school by students unable to get into challenging institutions of higher education. Most of the students there are apparently unaware of the strange things that happen in Morganville.

Common Grounds

A coffee shop located just off the TPU campus, Common Grounds acts as neutral territory for meetings between the human and vampire population.

"Morganville" novels

# "Glass Houses" (October 2006, ISBN 0-451-21994-5)
# "The Dead Girls' Dance" (April 2007, ISBN 0-451-22089-7)
# "Midnight Alley" (October 2007, ISBN 0-451-22238-5)
# "Feast of Fools" (June 2008, ISBN 0-451-22463-9)
# "Lord of Misrule" (January 2009, ISBN 0-451-22572-4)
# "Carpe Corpus"

References

External links

* [http://www.rachelcaine.com/cityhall/index.html Morganville Historical Society]
* [http://www.rachelcaine.com Rachel Caine's home page]