Bastien, desperate to go back to his mortal life and court Celine once again, researches the fable of a fey sorcerer with the ability to transform an immortal back into a mortal. Afterward, the moment drives Celine to find a way to reconnect with the handsome young man who keeps haunting her dream. Bastien enters a time of self-destructive partying, and his world is turned upside down when Celine make her way to his family's nightclub/restaurant and has a spark of recognition. She doesn't know she was once in love with Bastien and that she bargained with his powerful uncle to turn Bastien into a vampire in exchange for her memories.

Meanwhile, Celine, under the constant care of Michael, the New Orleans detective secretly from a family of werewolves, cannot remember anything other than she was attacked and then woke up in the hospital. THE DAMNED starts soon after the events of The Beautiful: Bastien has transformed from human on the verge of death into a newly made vampire, making him hungry for blood and distraught at having lost Celine. This series is best suited for teens who are fans of vampires, werewolves, historical thrillers, and paranormal romances. Two characters reflect on being caught smoking cigars are young teens. Adults (in this context) drink liquor and smoke the drug opium in a party sequence. The romance continues to be steamy with suggestive moments, descriptions of vampire debauchery, as well as one 'first time' scene. The story's language is occasionally but not frequently strong (a couple of uses of 'f-k,' 's-t,' 'goddamn,' the French phrase 'putain de merde,' etc.). As in the previous book, there's some bloody violence (characters are shot, stabbed, mauled, meet the vampire's 'final death') as well as intimidation, vampire bloodlust, and general peril. Naturally, neither amnesia nor becoming undead can keep Celine and Bastien and their complicated lives completely apart. This second installment of a four-book series takes place soon after the events of the first book: Bastien is now a baby vampire and Celine has been glamoured out her memories of Bastien, their love story, and his death. Parents need to know that The Damned is the second book in best-selling author Renée Ahdieh's 1872 New Orleans-set paranormal romance series that started with T he Beautiful.

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