**Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the highly anticipated
sequel to Rosanne A. Brown's explosive novel about a preteen vampire
slayer, inspired by Ghanaian folklore.
**
"Rosie writes her characters with such lyrical power, wit, and empathy
that you can't help falling in love with Serwa Boateng, her family, and
her friends."
--Rick Riordan, New York Times best-selling author of the Percy
Jackson and the Olympians series
After a lifetime of fighting creatures of black magic, twelve-year-old
Serwa Boateng has just learned a devastating secret: she herself is half
vampire! Now not only is she dealing with vampire puberty, she's on the
run from the organization of Slayers she trained her whole life to join.
Serwa's only ally is her aunt Boahinmaa, an obayifo who urges Serwa to
embrace her vampire side. Boahinmaa and her underlings are on the hunt
for the Midnight Drum, from which they hope to free Serwa's grandmother.
When they learn that the Abomofuo have hidden the Midnight Drum deep
within the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., what
do they do? Stage a heist to steal it, of course!
For their plan to succeed, Serwa will have to get close to her rival, a
Slayer named Declan Amankwah, without revealing her real nature. Declan
gets under her skin like no one else . . . and might just force Serwa to
confront some truths she's tried hard to deny.
With both sympathy and laugh-out-loud humor, Rosanne A. Brown captures
all the discomfort of a girl stuck between two worlds in this second
book in the unputdownable Serwa Boating saga.
