During the 5-day voting event, more than 41,000 votes were cast for readers’ favorite authors, books, series, characters, and publishers!  Many congratulations are in order after some tough races that came right down to the close of the polls, but first we want to recognize all the amazing fans and supporters out there who took time out of their holiday plans to help us nominate and celebrate these amazing authors and their work in 2013.  Much <3 from the GraveTells team to all our AWESOME readers!!

Here are your 2013 GraveTells Readers Choice Award winners!

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Please help us welcome bestselling author Laura Kaye and Taken by the Vampire King's Henrik!

I’m super excited to be at GraveTells today to celebrate the release of Taken by the Vampire King, a book in my Vampire Warrior Kings series. Taken by the Vampire King is a beauty-and-the-beast story about a dying vampire king and the human woman he thinks can save him. Today, hero and Warrior King of the Northern Vampires Henrik Magnusson agreed to sit down and have a chat with me, so let’s not keep him waiting.

Henrik Magnusson is supposed to be immortal, but a mysterious ailment leaves the vampire king near death, and not even the blood of the Proffered, human virgins trained to serve the elite, can sustain him. Then he rescues a beautiful young woman from his enemies, and is filled with blood lust and desire he hasn't felt for centuries. Photographer Kaira Sorenson's life takes a nightmare turn when she's attacked by blood-thirsty creatures—and saved by a vampire. She should be afraid of Henrik, but she can't deny her intense attraction to this regal, enigmatic being—nor the fact that her blood may be his only salvation. Now she must decide if she's willing to be his forever…

 

In our Readers Choice voting to celebrate the top stories and authors of 2012 in paranormal romance, as reviewed and featured here on GraveTells, nearly 1,200 fans came out to show support for their favorites.  With an epic total just shy of 18,000 votes, some of these races were very tight right to the end.  The Most Memorable Book category alone brought in over 2,500 votes, followed closely by the Most Engaging Author poll at just over 2,100.  What an exciting year for our genre!  Vampires and werewolves and fairies OH MY, indeed!  Now that the stressful 8 days of competition are over and the nominated authors can finally relax, [...]