Halloween Rain
Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Season 1
As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.
    Around Sunnydale, they say a scarecrow saturated with Halloween rain will come alive and slaughter anyone in sight. (Lovely place, Sunnydale.) Buffy’s best friends, Xander and Willow, used to think the tale was nonsense — but after a few adventures with Buffy, they’re not so sure.
    Even without a maniacal scarecrow, a Sunnydale Halloween is a truly horrific happening. There are enough zombies and vampires about, ready to party hearty and eat some brains, to keep the Slayer and her friends up all night.
    And then rain starts to fall…

Coyote Moon
John Vornholt
Season 1
The seedy carnival looks like just the thing to give Buffy and her best buds, Xander and Willow, a break from staking bloodsuckers. Some greasy food, a few cheap thrills — what more could a Slayer ask for?
    But then Buffy senses something evil behind this carnival. Xander and Willow aren’t so sure. They don’t buy Buffy’s notion that the carneys are somehow connected to the corpses turning up around Sunnydale. It doesn’t help that her two best friends are each interested in someone at the carnival. Which puts the burden of proof on Buffy.
    Can she find out what’s going on in time to save her friends?
    Or has the Slayer become the prey?

Night of the Living Rerun
Arthur Byron Cover
Season 1
In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, the Despised One was raised from the Otherworld and Samantha Kane, that generation’s Slayer, died while defeating it. Now in 1997, the Master is trying to have history repeat itself but this time with a different ending. The spirits of the people responsible for the rise of the Despised One in 1692 are now inhabiting the bodies of Buffy and her friends. Buffy must stop the ritual from happening or the Master will rise from his prison below Sunnydale.

Blooded
Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Season 3
Chirayoju, an ancient Chinese vampire, and Sanno, a Japanese Mountain King, have been fighting for years. Their spirits were imprisoned in a sword by a curse. The sword arrives in Sunnydale and while viewing the Japanese exhibit at the museum Willow becomes possessed by the spirit of Chirayoju and Xander, later on, becomes possessed by the spirit of Sanno. Buffy must figure out a way to stop the two spirits without killing her own friends. During the final battle, when the fight takes an ugly turn, Buffy must also keep her own spirit alive.

Child of the Hunt
Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Season 3
Jousting contests, human chess matches, lords and ladies and beggars… a traveling Renaissance fair has come to Sunnydale. The fair may seem terminally uncool, but Buffy and her friends are charmed anyway. Especially by a sad-eyed boy named Roland, who serves as the court jester.
    Unfortunately, the people from the fair are not the only visitors in Sunnydale. Roaming the countryside are nasty little creatures with a taste for flesh: the dark faerie. They are minions of the Wild Hunt, servants of the evil Erl King.
    Buffy’s challenge is to annihilate the king and his murderous horde. But the path to his destruction leads straight to Roland, who is not quite human… and destined to become the Slayer’s mortal adversary.

Return to Chaos
Craig Shaw Gardner
Season 3
The Hellmouth (a.k.a. Sunnydale, CA) has drawn vampires, witches, and other demons to its powerful vortex. Now it has also drawn the attention of an ancient set of Druids — allies in Buffy Summers’ battle against the Undead.
    Cloaked in Darkness, wrapped in mystery, the Druids descend on Sunnydale ready to perform new rituals to summon forth a new world order, free from the evil that shapes Buffy’s nights.
    But the Slayer’s concerns are more immediate — someone is stalking her friends. Cordelia, Xander, and Oz — all are falling victim to this spell. And now it’s up to Willow and Giles to find the cause, while Buffy stands between the Mouth of Hell and the New Dawn.

Visitors
Laura Anne Gilman & Josepha Sherman
Season 3
The paranormal forces centred in Sunnydale attract the vilest kinds of evil: vamps, demons… and student teachers? An invasion of collegians testing their teaching prowess on Buffy and her peers coincides with the arrival of a supernatural stalker. The Slayer feels the evil entity watching her every move, and she’s not the only one. But researching the beast is going to be problematic with the student teachers setting up shop in Giles’s home turf — the school library.
    When the stalker starts to take his malicious game to the next level, Buffy finds herself face to face with a being unlike any she’s ever encountered. But can she figure out its weakness before she is forced to participate in its dance of death?

Unnatural Selection
Mel Odom
Season 3
Willow’s trying to earn a little pocket change by taking the usual teenage part-time job — baby-sitting the neighbour’s kid. But her child-care chores turn into a scene from a horror movie when the baby gives her the evil eye and attacks.
    Barely saved from the tiny terror by Cordelia, Willow can’t forget the missing human child — or the monstrous thing left in its place. The childish changeling keeps coming back to haunt and taunt her. Buffy and her posse soon discover a possible connection between Willow’s infant interloper and some strange artifacts Giles found at a local archaeological dig.
    The evil plaguing Willow was once trapped underground. Now that it has been unearthed by new construction on the property, it’s ready to cause some major mischief… and worse.

Obsidian Fate
Diana G. Gallagher
Season 3
On the outskirts of Sunnydale, recent rains have uncovered the remains of a five hundred-year-old Spanish expedition. But one of the artifacts, a smoky mirror with an ornately carved obsidian frame, goes missing, along with the history teacher who found it. And when Buffy narrowly escapes the attack of a black jaguar while on patrol, Giles puts the gang into research mode.
    An ancient volume identifies the missing mirror as a magical object formed by the Aztec god of darkness. A mortal who looks into the mirror will see his or her fate — and can be manipulated by the evil god, who is scheming to regain his power.
    Taking their destinies into their own hands, the Slayer and her friends rush into a ferocious battle between light and darkness in the shadows of a massive Aztec temple, a battle against perpetual night — and the evil that thrives in the dark hour.

Power of Persuasion
Elizabeth Massie
Season 3
When the female population of Sunnydale starts strutting its girl power, the push for gender equality seems like a normal expression of ’90s feminism. After all, a girl trying out for the football team isn’t usually a sign of imminent danger. But when the guys start acting like powerless pawns and a few even turn up dead, Buffy Summers notices that the local womyn’s movement has reached a feverish — and probably unnatural — pitch.
    The Slayer is the only one who can see straight during the ultimate battle of the sexes. Her friends — including Giles — are spellbound by the malignant muses permeating the school. Even the local vampires are acting strange. Alone in her search for answers, Buffy must figure out who’s behind the sinister sisterhood… and close the gender gap before the feminist revolution goes too far.

Immortal
Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Season 3
During a routine slaying, Buffy encounters a vampire named Veronique who knows the slayer’s name and can anticipate her attack. One who doesn’t have the proper respect for Mr. Pointy. One who cannot die. If slain, she will reincarnate in a new body.
    An invincible demon is the last thing Buffy needs right now. Joyce Summers is about to undergo a serious operation, calling up all of her daughter’s fears about her own mortality. Angel wants to comfort Buffy, but her mother’s crisis underscores the differences between them: he will live forever, while she will grow old… or die young.
    Torn between her duties as the Chosen One, Buffy needs the support of her friends to help her solve a rash of grave robberies, head off an influx of new vampires, and take Veronique down once and for all. For Veronique is on a mission — to bring about the unification of her masters, the Triumvirate, into one all-powerful demon that will drink the blood of the last man on earth.

Sins of the Father
Christopher Golden
Season 3
One night while on patrol, the Slayer and her friends are outnumbered and receive aid from a totally unexpected source: Buffy’s old flame, Pike. He and Buffy had a complex relationship back in Los Angeles, when the Chosen One was first called. Now, Pike has arrived in Sunnydale, on the run from a stone demon with a grudge. Faced with this blast from the past, Buffy finds herself caught between her history with Pike… and her future with Angel.
    But there’s little time to contemplate this situation as vamp activity rises and Giles, in particular, becomes the target of mysterious, brutal attacks. Buffy suspects a deeper connection between old friends and new enemies. With the help of her friends, Buffy unmasks the evil entities — and discovers that even a Watcher can be watched….

Resurrecting Ravana
Ray Garton
Season 3
With midterms looming, the students at Sunnydale High are predictably stressed-out. Even super-student Willow is feeling the pressure to succeed. And when her usual study buddies — Buffy, Xander, and Oz — decide they don’t need her tutorial sessions, Willow wonders if she’s really what they don’t need. But her hurt feelings don’t explain her sudden antagonism toward Buffy — or the strange dreams they’ve both been having.
    As tensions in the school escalate into brutal acts of violence — and the perpetrators turn up horribly mutilated — Buffy and the gang search for a supernatural source. The evidence indicates that someone is attempting to resurrect a powerful Hindu demon. Willow’s new confidante, guidance counsellor Promila Daruwalla, becomes the prime suspect… until Giles runs into an old “friend” who is always causing trouble. It will take all of the Slayer’s resources… and the help of all her friends… to find the culprit and destroy the key to the demon’s resurrection.

Deep Water
Laura Anne Gilman & Josepha Sherman
Season 3
Willow’s soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers another unexpected victim of the spillage — a selkie, a     shapeshifting seal girl who won’t be able to return to the sea until the oil is removed from her coat.
    Willow takes the creature back to the library so that Giles and the Slayerettes can help her to restore her magickal coat. However, though “Ariel,” as the posse dubs her, is endearing in her innocence, Buffy can’t quite shake her innate suspicions of the creature whose nature, like the ocean, is ever changing.
    Unfortunately, the spill has forced more than a selkie from the cold water. Merrows look very much like traditional mermaids — with one important and fatal difference. As if things weren’t complicated enough…

Prime Evil
Diana G. Gallagher
Season 3
When attractive, youthful Crystal Gregory takes a teaching position at Sunnydale High, she also takes what seems to be an instant dislike to Buffy Summers. Buffy’s Slayer sense doesn’t detect anything unusual about the teacher. But when you’re living on a Hellmouth, nothing is what it seems. Crystal isn’t above playing favourites, and her pets — including Willow, Michael, and Anya — are loyal to her in the extreme. This wouldn’t bother Buffy… but for the fact that she has found a fresh burn mark on two of the students’ necks. Giles immediately recognizes the symbol as the mark of a powerful witch whose existence predates the Salem Witch Trials.
    The primal witch will continue to wreak havoc until she successfully gathers a coven of thirteen people who have magickal ability. Once the group is created, she will perform a moonlit ritual to endow herself with infinite power, at which point all members of her clan — indeed, all human beings — will be subject to her will. Buffy’s going to need her Wicca girl, Willow, to save the world this time — but can Willow be persuaded by reason before it’s too late?

Here Be Monsters
Cameron Dokey
Season 3
Something icky is brewing, as usual, in Sunnydale. This time it’s in the form of two clean-cut, prep school-type boys. Buffy’s suspicious from the start — their fashion statement is so old it’s dead, and it seems they have a slightly unnatural attachment to their mother.
    But then, almost everything about these boys is unnatural — they’re vampires. Not ordinary vampires, either — they are descendants of a clan known for its ability to summon powerful occult forces. And when the Slayer dusts this dynamic duo, she learns what you get when you mess with a vamp family tree. Now it’s up to Buffy to battle her personal demons — or risk endangering her own most cherished relation. Because mama vamp has something in mind for Joyce…

The Evil That Men Do
Nancy Holder
Season 3
After a vicious shooting spree, the town of Sunnydale is shell-shocked. What could have sparked the random rampage? Buffy Summers can guess. Considering the prophetic dreams she’s been having, the Slayer suspects possession by an especially malevolent force. As the police follow their typical false leads, the Slayerettes start up their own research into possible paranormal causes. But when Oz’s van is discovered on the side of the road, minus one teen wolf, a distraught Willow turns on Buffy, disrupting the investigation.
    With the pressure in Sunnydale mounting, the residents’ reactions to stress grow increasingly unpredictable. The Slayer continues her search for answers, narrowly surviving an attack by a well-trained and powerful vampire who brought a gruesome death to every Slayer who crossed her path. Is this the ancient creature behind the recent influx of evil? Or is there another influence… close to home?

How I Survived My Summer Vacation
Various
Between Season 1 & Season 2
A collection of short stories set during the summer after sophomore year at Sunnydale High.
    When sophomore year ended with Buffy’s defeat — just barely — of the Master, she headed off to spend the summer with her father in L.A. The theme was R&R, parties, and an occasional shopping spree. But things that go bump in the night don’t take vacation. So Buffy’s trying desperately to keep a lid on things in L.A. — and to keep her secret identity from her father.
    Meanwhile, back in Sunnydale, trouble keeps popping up in the darnedest places. Giles wants Willow and Xander to have a “normal” summer, so he and Jenny Calendar, whose budding romance is progressing to full bloom, attempt to stave off the forces of darkness sans Slayer and Slayerettes.     And Angel, grappling with Buffy’s brush with death, must decide: Does he want to be a more permanent member of the Scooby Gang?
    Concerts. Picnics. The resurrection of an ancient monster or two. Just your typical fun in the sun.

Paleo
Yvonne Navarro
Season 3
Buffy Summers and her gang know that Sunnydale is a haven for outsiders, whether of the supernatural or strictly adolescent variety. Shy transfer student Kevin Sanderson is no exception. But Kevin instantly finds a mentor in Daniel, a palaeontologist and fellow dino-phile at the Sunnydale Museum of Natural History. When Buffy starts hearing rumours of alligators in the sewers, she has to wonder about Kevin and Daniel’s hobbies.
    Meanwhile, the Slayerettes are having extracurricular excitement of their own. Alysa, a hotshot talent agent, wants to represent the Dingoes, and she’s offering the Scooby Gang fame and fortune. If she’s legit, it could be Oz’s big break. But Buffy’s too busy to run a background check — Daniel and Kevin have reanimated an ancient creature with a new agenda… an agenda that begins and ends with the destruction of the Slayer…

Ghoul Trouble
John Passarella
Season 3
Something wicked has been preying on Sunnydale students — and whatever it is, its methods are pretty gruesome. Buffy locates some human bones that have been picked clean, and knows that she’s dealing with an unearthly evil. Some help from the Scooby Gang would be ideal, but they’ve run into trouble of their own. Oz and Xander are literally (perhaps unnaturally) mesmerized by a hottie new chick band headlining at the Bronze, and Willow has been captured by Sunnydale’s latest resident carnivores.
   What they need is the Slayer. But in order to help her friends, Buffy must first dust a vampire — one that has an urgent interest in Joyce Summers, the unique ability to resist sunlight, and an open invitation to the Summers’ house.

Doomsday Deck
Diana G. Gallagher
Season 3
It’s that time of the year for the Sunnydale Sidewalk Art Festival, and Buffy and the gang have been enlisted to help Joyce prepare for the big event. In fact, Xander’s especially eager to pitch in, due to the arrival of a major hottie — a young artist named Justine. She specializes in Tarot paintings, and tells Xander that she senses much energy surrounding his aura. Xander naturally assumes his latent psychic powers have been awakened.
   But Buffy’s not quite ready to call the psychic hot line. She has a nagging suspicion that something about Justine is not five by five — especially after she reaches for Justine’s prized Tarot deck, which causes the artist to fly off the handle in a big way. Then there’s the fact that vampires appear uncomfortable in Justine’s presence. One by one, each of Buffy’s closest friends seem to be surrendering their free will to an unknown, unseen force…

Revenant
Mel Odom
Season 3
When a Chinese gang hits Sunnydale, racial tensions in the community are sparked. Buffy has seen the baddies shake down Willy the Snitch, so naturally her Slayer senses are up. But to Willow, the situation poses a more personal threat. Her new friend Jia Li has been feeling the backlash from this cross-cultural hostility — and it’s tearing her family apart. Jia remains true to her ancient cultural heritage, but her brother, the angry, outspoken Lok, is ready to toss out old Chinese customs for the modern American lifestyle. And he’s willing to use the occult for just that purpose.
   Suddenly, a beautiful martial-arts warrior arrives on the scene. It’s impossible to tell where her allegiance lies, but Xander — whose romances are becoming habitually complicated — is smitten, Giles is in full research mode, and before long, Buffy is wondering who’s behind the gang warfare. Is supernatural evil brewing?

The Book of Fours
Nancy Holder
Season 3
From a place of nightmares — which Buffy and Faith share — a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off disaster. Clearly, the big evil is linked to the Slayers’ nightmares, which revolve around four figures: one burning, one dripping wet, one covered in mud, one shrouded in windswept linen. Each carries a box of grafted skin and bone. Giles learns that the last Slayer to encounter a similar container was India Cohen — Buffy’s immediate predecessor.
   Strangely, Buffy has never given much thought to the young girl whose death activated her own Slayerdom, but now she must draw on the strength of those who came before her. For Buffy is being stalked by a monstrous force that journeys through time, fortifying itself by draining the primal power of a Slayer. Buffy must orient herself on a continuum against evil that predates even humanity itself…

Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row
Christopher Golden
1940’s Europe
It’s 1940, and Europe is ravaged by World War II — an ideal environment for demon paramours Spike and Drusilla. The anniversary of Dru’s resurrection as a vamp impends, and Spike wants to celebrate. What better gift than Freyja’s Strand — a powerful necklace rumoured to allow its wearer to shape-shift at will? Spike learns of a demon named Skrymir, who claims to possess the bauble and is willing to trade.
   Spike’s task is to infiltrate the Watcher’s Council headquarters and get his hands on the list of young women in training to take over as Slayer should they be called. In exchange for Freya’s Strand, Spike must kill the reining Slayer, a brazen young woman named Sophie, as well as the Slayers-in-Waiting. And if he succeeds, it could mean the end of the Chosen One — all of the Chosen Ones — forever…

Tempted Champions
Yvonne Navarro
Season 5
Buffy’s shaken to learn that Celina, the new girl in town, is actually a vamp who’s heard of Buffy’s rep. She’s here to challenge the Slayer and even Angel — in L.A. — is concerned that this time, Buffy may be in over her head.
   Celina’s not the only monster skulking about the neighbourhood. D’Hoffryn has returned to Sunnydale to offer Anya another chance as a vengeance demon. Can she give up her romance with Xander and the friendships she’s forged as a mortal for another shot at immortality — even if it comes with a horrific price tag? Dawn tries to explain to Anya that humanity is worth the occasional heartache, even as she has doubts of her own.
   Suddenly Buffy learns the terrifying truth about Celina: she’s not just any vamp — she was once a Slayer herself. Buffy has struggled with her own dark side enough to question the subtle distinction between “Slayer” and killer. If Celina turned Buffy, and Willow restored Buffy’s soul, could she possibly find love with Angel at last?
   And, more importantly, would she still be a hero?

Sweet Sixteen
Scott Ciencin
Season 5
Buffy’s younger sister, Dawn, knows how it feels to be different. So when she overhears her classmates teasing a new girl, Arianna, she steps in, and the two become friends. But when Buffy comes home one afternoon to find her sister and Arianna hanging out, she’s surprised — she encountered Arianna one night on patrol. A demon had been attacking her, but Arianna fought back on her own. What’s that about?
   The more the gang gets to know Arianna, the more puzzled they are. She has superstrength and accelerated healing power, just like a slayer. But what she also has is a dark secret and an unusual past — and a dangerous legacy that is primed to reveal itself, just as soon as she turns sweet sixteen…

Oz: Into the Wild
Christopher Golden
Season 4
Bitten by his werewolf cousin Jordy, Oz has struggled with the forces of evil that transform him to a beast three nights of each month. Those who care about him have learned to deal with his alter ego and accept him for who he is.
   But Oz himself isn’t sure who he really is. Part human, part dangerous animal, he must constantly question his basic nature, and worries that he might, as the wolf, bring harm to his loved ones. Therefore, with great difficulty, he leaves Sunnydale and sets off on a course toward enlightenment. Giles has told him of a Watcher in the Fiji Islands who might help him to transcend the lunar pull.
   Oz’s journeys take him from Tibet to Australia, and even to Hong Kong. Far-flung regions and exotic cultures provide new understandings of consciousness and human nature. Before long, though, he realizes that he must gain control of his inner wolf sooner rather than later — or risk finding himself not predator, but rather, prey…

Crossings
Mel Odom
Season 5
Buffy and Dawn are having difficulty settling into their new roles, now that their mother is gone. Buffy herself is reluctant to cross over to the role of parent, and the two are bickering more than usual.
   In fact, Buffy’s distraction prevents her from noticing strange behaviour among the video-game crowd. One of Xander’s friends goes medieval outside the Sunnydale movie theatre, laughing and babbling that he can’t be stopped — he’s only in town on a temporary visa. Puzzled, Anya and Xander investigate. It seems that people who’ve been testing a new video game have been demonstrating creepy tics.
   As the Slayer attempts to put all of the pieces together, Anya is abducted into an alternate demon universe. Buffy had better figure out how to get her friend back to Sunnydale, before the game is over, for good…Buffy and Dawn are having difficulty settling into their new roles, now that their mother is gone. Buffy herself is reluctant to cross over to the role of parent, and the two are bickering more than usual.
   In fact, Buffy’s distraction prevents her from noticing strange behaviour among the video-game crowd. One of Xander’s friends goes medieval outside the Sunnydale movie theatre, laughing and babbling that he can’t be stopped — he’s only in town on a temporary visa. Puzzled, Anya and Xander investigate. It seems that people who’ve been testing a new video game have been demonstrating creepy tics.
   As the Slayer attempts to put all of the pieces together, Anya is abducted into an alternate demon universe. Buffy had better figure out how to get her friend back to Sunnydale, before the game is over, for good!

The Wisdom of War
Christopher Golden
Season 5
The Creature from the Black Lagoon’s less attractive cousin has hit the Sunnydale scene, and Buffy and Co. are all over the new threat. So the Scoobs are stunned, naturally, when members of the Watcher’s Council arrive, explaining — or rather, insisting — that they’ve got the matter “under control.”
    Enter Faith.
   The Council has found a way to spring the rogue-but-repentant Slayer from jail to combat the water beast, and she is enjoying her stint as “the Good One.” Buffy, a self-declared independent operator for quite some time, thinks she is going to have to do a little digging. What connection could the Council have to these horrific creatures? There’s some soul-searching in store for the Slayer. Even if Buffy is ready to align with the Council, is this a battle worth fighting!

Little Things
Rebecca Moesta
Season 5
Since her mother’s death, Buffy Summers has had a hard time keeping her chin up. Suddenly finding herself alone and in charge of Dawn is certainly daunting, and being responsible, at the same time, for saving the world… well, it’s pressure. And lately the Slayer is feeling bogged down by the little things.
   Buffy has a toothache, but no dental insurance… as if her financial problems weren’t overwhelming enough already. And Anya and Xander are being held hostage in their own home by a plague of ants. Everyone is determined not to sweat the small stuff — until Spike discovers economy-sized evil wreaking havoc in Weatherly Park. Mini-monsters are perfectly capable of mega-trouble, and in order to stop them, the Slayer’s going to have to think… small!

These Our Actors
Ashley McConnell & Dori Koogler
Season 5
Willow Rosenberg is disappointed when her best friend Buffy, aka the Chosen One, decides to drop drama class in order to concentrate on her Slaying. Willow decides to stick with the class on her own, however, and this once-shy wallflower is pleased to find herself way bitten with the acting bug.
   It’s no surprise to Buffy and the Scoobs, then, when Willow decides to pitch in with the drama club’s latest production. Of course, Sunnydale being Hellmouth Central, Willow soon discovers a link between drama and magick; in fact, many ancient Greek performances were actually invocations to the Gods. Spike, who in his pre-vamp days had been a great patron of the arts, confirms this fact. He also takes an unusual level of interest in Willow’s extracurricular activities. When strange paranormal occurrences — and the appearance of a ghost or two — threaten Willow’s safety, the witch starts to wonder if it isn’t time to exit, stage left…

Blood and Fog
Nancy Holder
Season 6
Buffy Summers is on the trail of a killer demon in Sunnydale, and reluctantly accepts the help of Spike. Anything’s better than his moping around. But Spike — as usual — has his own agenda, and it involves something the demon is carrying: a vial of pure magickal power. Spike knows plenty of people and demons who will pay top dollar for this vial: Doc, Rack… and an ancient evil known as The First.
   Spike has encountered The First before. In the good old days in Victorian London, when Spike, Drusilla, Angelus, and Darla ran through the night in pursuit of dark fun, another evil being was stalking the streets, dispatching young women with brutal efficiency. But when the so-called “Jack the Ripper” struck too close to their twisted “family,” the vampires found themselves on the same side as the Slayer of that time. Working to bring down Jack, and running afoul of The First, Spike and the Slayer formed an uneasy alliance, which followed Spike all through the twentieth century to present day Sunnydale, now blanketed in a mysterious fog…

Mortal Fear
Scott & Denise Ciencin
Season 7
Buffy Summers is being run ragged all over Sunnydale these days. Working from clues some mysterious power is providing her with, the Slayer’s chasing down different baddies to gather pieces of a soul sword before it can be reassembled and fall into the wrong hands. While she resents following someone else’s orders, at the same time it is oddly comforting to her to have a clear goal, and someone else making all the plans. Without Giles around, and with her relationships a mess, Buffy’s at a point in her life where she could use some direction.
   Her friends are also searching for control in their lives, looking for areas they can excel in — without magick or destruction. Xander and Willow figure there has to be a better way to get by, to get ahead for a change. But just when it seems as if their dreams are coming true, both are felled by a strange virus that has been sweeping through Sunnydale — and thus “poisoning” the food supply for the local vamps.
   With lives at stake, Buffy must broker a truce with the vamps, find the rest of the sword, and locate her mysterious benefactor. All while fending off a rash of vicious attacks from the resident population — and her friends and family! If Buffy was looking for a goal, she has one now: survival!

Apocalypse Memories
Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz
Season 7
Willow can feel something strange happening, but seems as if no-one else has even noticed. They have problems of their own to deal with. Personal issues… relationship issues… the usual, everyday hassles that life is all about.
   But Willow’s fears are on a whole new level. She is still not happy with using her powers again, not after what happened when she lost control. People died. The power within her is massive, and if something should turn it to darkness, nobody is safe. Who knows what she might do?
   But her instincts are right. A wolf in sheep’s clothing has set off a series of freakish events: rivers of blood, flash storms, and the arrival of an unbelievable supernatural being. The apocalypse is here. Again. And while the world falls to pieces around them, Buffy and her friends — including Giles, returned from England — must decide what is most important. There is one last hope: a secret long-lost spell. But its side effects are dangerous. Is Willow ready and willing to take the risk…?

Spark and Burn
Diana G. Gallagher
Season 7
In the nineteenth century a boy named William was born. A sweet, gentle boy — no one could have guessed the suffering he’d cause, the pain he’d inflict. When, as a young man, he meets a woman called Drusilla — a strange woman, a woman unlike anyone William has ever known — he is fundamentally changed. She has turned him. There will be no more William. He is Spike now.
   As Spike, he travels Europe with a band of vagabond vampires. Dru, Darla, and Angelus instruct him on his new nature, and from them he learns about that greatest of vampiric enemies, the girl who is chosen to stand up against them, trained to kill them, endowed with the strength it takes to defeat them: the Slayer. Then and there, Spike decides he’ll hunt down those slayers. He’ll see how many he can find.
   Who would have thought then that he’d fight on the Slayer’s side? Who would have guessed that Spike, once William, would go out and seek his soul for a slayer? Who would have dared dream he’d fall in love with one?

Afterimage
Pierce Askegren
Season 2
Sunnydale, California, hosts more than its fair share of action and horror. It’s understandable, then, that news of the long-closed Sunnydale Drive-In’s grand reopening with a scheduled night-long festival of classic action and horror movies is met with disinterest or disdain by Buffy, Willow, and Cordelia. Only Xander, who has been spending his afternoons on the drive-in’s work crew, is eager to enjoy the rewards of his effort.
   Buffy is too distracted to sit and take in a movie, anyway. A frightening encounter with a werewolf ends with its vanishing — not into the woods, but evaporating like a ghost before her eyes. Suspicious people in dated clothing and hairstyles are spotted throughout town but don’t appear to be the usual vampires.
   And most disturbing, a sleeping sickness begins to sweep over town, leaving those affected in a state of extreme drowsiness — or a coma.
   It’s no wonder no one notices the distinguished-looking gentleman of indeterminate age. His name is Balsamo. At least, that’s what he’s calling himself this century. But Xander simply knows him as “Boss” and has been promised a prime parking space for the upcoming evening’s spectacle.

Carnival of Souls
Nancy Holder
Season 2
There’s something troubling about Professor Caligari’s Traveling Carnival. Perhaps it’s that no one can recall the arrival of its hard-to-miss caravan of old-style wagons, countless performers, and horse-drawn carts. Maybe it’s the creepy calliope music that tirelessly beckons visitors. Let’s face it, an enigma that chooses Sunnydale nearly guarantees it’s up to more than wholesome family entertainment.
   After a visit to the carnival’s Hall of Mirrors, a once-shy pair of homely sophomore twins parades the halls of Sunnydale High like diva supermodels on a runway. Intuiting the twins’ abrupt personality change as more than a self-confidence boost, Buffy — joined by Angel, Giles, and the rest of the Scoobies — decides to investigate the suspicious carnival first-hand. But soon it’s apparent that the price of admission is higher than she imagined. Those who enter the carnival’s attractions exit… “changed.” Each of the gang soon shows extreme displays of vice. Willow is wracked with envy. Cordelia’s greed consumes her. Xander unleashes his gluttony. Angel reveals a lusty new persona. And a dark anger rises in Giles. But it’s Buffy’s now-blinding pride that threatens to overpower her, and in the process destroy those she loves…

Go Ask Malice
Robert Joseph Levy
Boston, during Season 2
January 22: Had the dream again last night. Only this time it was different…
   Faith has always been a loner. Growing up in a broken home in South Boston, shuffled from relative to relative, her only companion was an imaginary friend named Alex, who helped her escape into a fantasy world of monsters and the supernatural, far from the real-life horrors of the waking world.
   Now, taken away from her mother by social services and shipped off to a foster home, Faith learns that some nightmares are all too real, that the inventions of her childhood really do haunt the night, hungry for blood. Enter Diana Dormer, a Harvard professor and representative of the Watchers Council who has come to tell Faith of her destiny, to train her, to prepare her for what is to come: Faith is the Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness.
   But she’s not alone. When Alex, her childhood companion, returns in her dreams, she warns Faith that someone else is coming for her, a force so deadly and unforgiving that it has inspired fear in the underworld for a thousand generations. Its name is Malice.
   As memory and fantasy begin to merge, Faith’s two worlds collide, with cataclysmic results. A violent battle for the Slayer’s soul is staged, winner take all.
   This is her story…

Blackout
Keith DeCandido
New York, 1977
New York City in 1977 is vampire heaven. Serial killer Son of Sam is often blamed for their hits, and a citywide blackout gives them free reign of the streets, allowing them to get away with murder. Spike and his beloved Drusilla are in the Big Apple taking advantage of the situation, as is Vampire Slayer Nikki Wood, who has hunkered down with her son, Robin, in a Times Square apartment where she thinks they’ll be safe.
   But no matter where she goes, Nikki has to watch her back. Spike has only one thing on his mind: to slay a slayer. Adding to Spike’s list of challenges is a corrupt local vampire community that catches wind of his presence, and when they start messing with him, things get bloody interesting.

Portal Through Time
Alice Henderson
Season 2
Buffy thought she’d finished the Master when she dusted him. But in Sunnydale things have a way of coming back… The Master may be dead, but he is not forgotten. One of the vampire lord’s devotees sets out to alter the past so that he can resurrect the Master without Buffy’s meddling. When he conjures up a portal to transport his minions through time, the vampires are poised to murder the most powerful slayers in history!
   It is up to the Scoobies to stop the Master’s followers before they break the chain of slayers. Giles, Xander, Willow, and Buffy pursue the vamps back in time through the portal to save the slayers of the past. They must track the bloodsuckers from the French Revolution to the American Civil War without getting detected — or worse!
   But you can’t change the past without changing the present…

Bad Bargain
Diana G. Gallagher
Season 2
The Scoobies are used to being personally affected when demonic nasties come to Sunnydale. And they’re used to strange things happening at Sunnydale High — after all, the place is built over the Hellmouth. But they’ve sealed the Hellmouth, so they don’t think anything’s out of the ordinary when items to be sold at the first annual band fund-raising rummage sale are stored in the school basement… which, one might recall, is directly above that Hellmouth.
   Once the rummage sale begins, it’s clear the stuff for sale is far from ordinary. People seem to be strangely affected by the items they’re buying — things from undemonic homes, donated by undemonic people. So the reactions these items are producing are, to say the least, unexpected. Willow’s acting weird. So’s Xander. And even Buffy’s mom bought something….
   The situation quickly spins out of control, and the school has to be quarantined… leaving Buffy and Giles to sort things out before whatever demon this is sells them down the river.

One Thing Or Your Mother
Kirsten Beyer
Season 2
It’s tough being a teenage Slayer. On the verge of failing her junior year — thanks to annoying Principal Snyder, who seems to be acting even stranger than usual lately — Buffy agrees to meet with a tutor. Not helping her studies is the fact that lately she’s been exhausted, waking up each morning feeling more tired than she did the night before.
   To make matters even worse, she’s tasked with investigating the disappearance of a child… a little girl who happens to have gone missing mere hours before a child vampire surfaced in Sunnydale, accompanied by a wheelchair-bound male who fits Spike’s description perfectly.
   Fighting off exhaustion and uneasy at the prospect of staking a child vamp, Buffy learns that Principal Snyder is the target of a sleep-deprivation spell that has taken over Sunnydale. Putting aside her fear that her tutor is out to get her, and hoping that the sleeping spell is affecting both humans and demons, Buffy investigates Snyder’s odd behaviour. She follows him to his childhood home to discover that he has arranged to have his abusive mother banished to the demon dimension. Meanwhile, Drusilla, who has been playing mother figure to the child vampire, is learning how difficult it is to be a parent. As sleep takes hold of the citizens of Sunnydale, Buffy begins to realize that unless she breaks the spell soon, the nightmare is just beginning.

The Deathless
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Season 3
As if Ring Day weren’t enough to make Buffy Summers anxious (she can’t even afford one of the less expensive silver bands), the Slayer has her hands full trying to figure out why an average split-level house in Sunnydale has all the vampires spooked. When she arrives at the library to discuss this new development with Giles, a package he’s received from an old folklorist in Russia reveals what’s going on: The stars are properly aligned for an attempt to resurrect Koschei the Deathless, a long-dead evil sorcerer. So while her classmates are busy choosing rings to demonstrate their school spirit, Buffy must figure out how to keep someone from reviving Koschei and, should she need to resort to plan B, how to kill him again.
   A little investigating soon leads Buffy and the gang to the necromancer who originally killed the sorcerer, an immortal Russian sorceress named Yulia Dryanushkina, who can control vampires (which explains their reluctance to pass by her place of residence). When the crew pays Yulia a visit, she assures them that with Willow’s assistance, she would be able to kill the sorcerer again should he be revived.
   Neither Buffy nor Willow are particularly comfortable with aligning themselves with the necromancer, but they have no other choice when, twenty-four hours later, the vampires start behaving strangely… and half the senior class goes missing.

THE GATEKEEPER TRILOGY

Out of the Madhouse
Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Season 3
Werewolves. Trolls. Sea Monsters. Rain of toads. Sky quakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles is hospitalized out of town, it’s more than one Slayer can handle — especially since the abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space.
   Somehow, the hell-hole must be found and corked at its source. For Buffy, Angel, and the rest of her gang, that means a road trip to Boston where an ailing Gatekeeper resides over a supernatural mansion that has been, until recently, holding the world’s worst monsters at bay. Once there, Buffy discovers the catastrophic truth: the magical structure houses thousands of rooms, all of which are doorways to limbo’s “ghost roads,” and all of which may bring her face-to-face with the most nefarious forces in hell and on earth — forces bent on horrific plans far worse than the Slayer ever imagined.

Ghost Roads
Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Season 3
Buffy, Oz, and Angel are Europe-bound, only they’re not flying any airlines. They’re traveling limbo’s “ghost roads” in search of Jacques Regnier. Jacques is the sole heir of the dying Gatekeeper whose Boston mansion is the supernatural barrier restraining thousands of the world’s monsters. The evil Sons of Entropy will do anything to destroy the gate — even if it means trading the power-laden Spear of Longinus to the wicked vampires holding Jacques.
   Back home, the ghost ship Flying Dutchman has set sail for Sunnydale, determined to shanghai new crewmen — dead or alive. For Willow, Xander, Cordelia, and Giles, it’s an ocean of trouble, especially when the monstrous Kraken re-emerges with a vengeance. But everyone’s assistance will be needed once Buffy locates Jacques, and uncovers the shocking plans the Sons of Entropy have already placed in motion — a plan that, if successful, will destroy the world and create a horrible new realm ruled by monsters.

Sons of Entropy
Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Season 3
Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roads are crumbling, becoming weak and unstable where Hell and the Otherworld have begun seeping in, blurring the passages that lead to the human world. And Xander lies mortally wounded from a failed attempt to free Joyce Summers from the clutches of the zealots who hold her hostage. With the Gatekeeper rapidly weakening, Buffy sends Willow and Cordelia to escort Xander along the Ghost Roads to the Gatehouse, which may hold his only hope of survival. Meanwhile, she, Giles, and an unlikely band of allies take their fight to the very mouth of Hell itself, desperately hoping to save Joyce and repel the evil spawn before Sunnydale becomes a demonic ground zero. Only then can Buffy safeguard the Gatekeeper’s eleven-year-old heir, the only one able to prevent the ultimate destruction of humanity.

THE LOST SLAYER

Prophecies
Christopher Golden
Season 4
Buffy Summers’ adjustment to life at U.C. Sunnydale has not gone smoothly. She feels awkward, insecure, and a bit jealous that Willow’s all over the college life. So when the spirit of deceased Slayer Lucy Hanover appears to Buffy in a dream with news of impending danger, the timing couldn’t be worse.
   Besides, there’s plenty of evil afoot as it is. A unified troop of vampires has descended upon Sunnydale, operating with a cohesion unusual to most bloodsuckers. Giles thinks a spell will help the gang combat these foes, but tension between Buffy and Willow gets in the way of demon hunting.
   Before long, a single moment of bad judgment catapults Buffy into an alternate future dimension where vampires reign supreme. Imprisoned in the body of her 24-year-old self, the Slayer must uncover her past misstep and correct it — or risk facing a terrifying monster that she herself has created…

Dark Times
Christopher Golden
Season 4
Buffy Summers’ adjustment to life at U.C. Sunnydale has not gone smoothly. She feels awkward, insecure, and a bit jealous that Willow’s all over the college life. So when the spirit of deceased Slayer Lucy Hanover appears to Buffy in a dream with news of impending danger, the timing couldn’t be worse.
   Besides, there’s plenty of evil afoot as it is. A unified troop of vampires has descended upon Sunnydale, operating with a cohesion unusual to most bloodsuckers. Giles thinks a spell will help the gang combat these foes, but tension between Buffy and Willow gets in the way of demon hunting.
   Before long, a single moment of bad judgment catapults Buffy into an alternate future dimension where vampires reign supreme. Imprisoned in the body of her 24-year-old self, the Slayer must uncover her past misstep and correct it — or risk facing a terrifying monster that she herself has created…

King of the Dead
Christopher Golden
Season 4
Sunnydale. Five years into the future. A bleak, post-apocalyptic future for which the Slayer herself is responsible. Her mother has been killed. Angel is missing and presumed dead. Her friends are different, harder.
    But that’s not the worst of it.
    Buffy’s enemies are different, too…
   In this alternate reality, old foes are wreaking havoc in vampire-dominated Southern California. This in and of itself is no surprise. But when Buffy learns that even the vicious Spike is merely a minion, lackey to the chief bloodsucker, she is rocked to the core. For he serves none other than Giles, the Vampire King.
   Whom Buffy must face and conquer — as her friends back in real time struggle to bring her disembodied spirit home…

Original Sins
Christopher Golden
Season 4
Joyce Summers is dead. Spike has been slain and Faith, rogue Slayer, is gone as well. Southern California has fallen under vampire rule.
    And Rupert Giles is Vampire King.
 Buffy can hold no one but herself responsible for this grim possible future; her own insecurities and petty jealousies led to this moment. She must now gather her inner strength and combat the demon that inhabits the corpse of her most trusted mentor. With the help of Willow and the Slayerettes, Buffy must invoke the elements, stave off a vampire stronghold, and return to her real-time body — but not before identifying and preventing the misstep that brought about the oppression of those she holds closest…

TALES OF THE SLAYER

Tales of the Slayer: Volume 1
Various
Various
Into every generation, a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, to find the vampires where they gather, and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. In our time, that girl is Buffy Summers. But Buffy is merely one Slayer in an eternal continuum of warriors for the Powers That Be.
   We’ve known of others: The Primal Slayer, who stalked the earth and the forces of darkness in fierce solitude… Nikki, the funky hipster whose demise at Spike’s hands lent an urban edge to his wardrobe and a bigger bounce to his swagger. Slayers by nature have a limited life expectancy; for each one who falls, another rises to take her place.
   Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1, chronicles Slayers past who have influenced — and are influenced by — the traditions and mythologies of yore. From ancient Greece, to aristocratic Slayers holding court in revolution-era France, to the legend of the Bloody Countess Elizabeth Bathory, to 1920’s Munich, each girl has a personal history, a shared moral code, and a commitment to conquer evil, regardless of the cost…

Tales of the Slayer: Volume 2
Various
Various
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always held an irreverent attitude toward her calling, but ultimately she understands the ramifications of her destiny and is prepared to die to protect the world from Evil. In fact, she has died. Twice.
   It’s an ancient tradition, steeped in lore, mythology, and fateful prophecies. Slayerdom consists of a Council of Watchers, a continuum of slayers, an archive of journals, and even a handbook.
   But first and foremost, it begins with a girl. One girl in all the world. A Chosen One. Now, catch up on other Slayers past and present, in the second short-story collection, Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2!

Tales of the Slayer: Volume 3
Various
Various
The Slayers’ lives are short, and not very sweet. The Watchers’ Journals are full of their tales — their battles, their triumphs, and ultimately, their successors.
   Buffy the Vampire Slayer is but the latest in a long line of women warriors stretching back to the dawn of humankind. As long as there have been vampires, there has been a Slayer. Usually called in her teens, the Chosen One leads a brief life full of conflict and doom.
   From the Anasazi villages of A.D. 1250 to Shanghai, China, in 1866, from Hollywood in the ’40s to Buffy’s predecessor in Tokyo of the ’90s, Slayers have always risen above their most recent defeat.
   Four best-selling Buffy novelists come together in a collection of novellas chronicling tales of Slayers past. Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Mel Odom, and Yvonne Navarro each present a new entry in the historic line of Slayers.

Tales of the Slayer: Volume 4
Various
Various
At eighteen, each Slayer must face a terrifying trial: the Tento di Cruciamentum. This time-honoured, albeit cruel, rite of passage forces each Watcher to drain the Slayer of all her physical powers and then send her to vanquish a powerful vampire using only her wits. When Buffy Summers underwent her Cruciamentum, she managed to defeat Kralik, a vampire who had been committed to a sanatorium as a human for torturing and murdering more than a dozen young women before he was turned. However, not all Slayers have been so cunning.
   Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4 chronicles the Cruciamentum of eight earlier Slayers. From Prohibition Chicago to beatnik New York City, from the sideshows of a traveling carnival to a small Irish farm, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, the Cruciamentum has tested the prowess of Slayers throughout history. Each of them has had to fight: for her job, for the lives of those she loved, and for her own existence…

NOVELISATIONS

The Harvest
Richie Tankersley Cusick
Welcome to the Hellmouth; The Harvest
Something’s wrong in Sunnydale, California… something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find them where they gather and stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. In this generation, she is Buffy Summers, 16 years old and a new student at Sunnydale High.
   Her experiences at her last school persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life of a normal teenager. But it is no coincidence that Buffy has come to this town at this time. The area is a centre of mystical energy, and all the signs point to an imminent, crucial upheaval. Once in a century comes The Harvest: a night when the Master Vampire can draw enough power to break free and open the portal between his world and ours… unleashing havoc.
   With the help of new friends and a new Watcher, Buffy’s back in business…

The Angel Chronicles: Volume 1
Nancy Holder
Angel; Reptile Boy; Lie to Me
After a century of killing without a care, the vampire Angelus was cursed with a conscience and eventually fled to Sunnydale, where he restricted his feeding to blood banks.
   Until 16-year-old Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, arrived in town to battle vampires, demons and the forces of darkness. First, he has to convince her not to kill him. Then, he has to convince himself not to fall in love with her.
   Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the cult-hit TV series chronicling the beginning of this star crossed love story

The Angel Chronicles: Volume 2
Richie Tankersley Cusick
Halloween; What’s My Line?
The course of love in Sunnydale never runs smoothly, especially for Buffy Summers the Vampire Slayer and her boyfriend, Angel the Vampire. They’re going through the usual early stages of a romantic relationship; dressing to impress, going on coffee dates, and saving the world. When Buffy tries to be more like the girls from Angel’s distant past, she succeeds a little too well; becoming helpless in the face of real evil.
   Career week at school finds her future as the Slayer, and all the relationship baggage that title comes with, until an unexpected ally gives new insight into her calling. And when Angel is taken hostage by an old acquaintance with sinister plans, Buffy realizes she must draw on all her passion to save the one she loves.

The Angel Chronicles: Volume 3
Nancy Holder
Surprise; Innocence; Passion
For Buffy the Vampire Slayer, birthdays aren’t all parties and cake — hers tend to involve a life-or-death battle with a big evil. Her seventeenth celebration isn’t an exception. While Buffy’s friends organize a festive gathering in honour of the special day, Spike and Drusilla are planning their own surprise party for the Slayer — with a devastating demon as the grand finale.
   But a passionate night with Angel changes everything. Suddenly, Buffy must deal with two forms of ultimate evil: the almost-indestructible Judge — and the legendary vampire Angelus, who is determined to exact his special brand of revenge on the young woman who showed him true love.
   Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the hit TV series chronicling Angel’s darker side.

The Xander Years: Volume 1
Keith DeCandido
Teacher’s Pet; Inca Mummy Girl; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Xander Harris’s love life is no walk in the park. Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you… dead.
   There’s that whole unrequited love thing he has going for Buffy, let’s not even talk about how he feels about his best friend, Willow, and how could anyone forget his love-hate dating relationship with Cordelia!
   Let’s face it having a Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy. Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s friend Xander Harris seems to find more than his share of trouble with the opposite sex.
   Now, collected for the first time, are three stories based on the teleplays from the hit TV series chronicling Xander’s search for love on the Hellmouth…

The Xander Years: Volume 2
Jeff Mariotte
The Pack; Go Fish; The Zeppo
Most teens have trouble finding themselves now and then, but when you’re living on a hellmouth, “trouble” is an understatement — especially if you’re Xander Harris. He has never been very popular, and has never had much luck with women, but he is uniquely Xander.
   After a Sunnydale High School field trip to the zoo, Xander becomes obnoxious and aggressive. Giles thinks it’s typical adolescent male behaviour, but Buffy knows better. And when he finally scores “cool” points by making the Sunnydale High swim team, he’s thrown into the middle of something, well… fishy.
   Still, once Xander is excluded from the Slayer’s most recent anti-apocalyptic campaign, he finds himself battling his own private evil — and saving Sunnydale High from a fate it never imagined.

The Willow Files: Volume 1
Yvonne Navarro
I Robot, You Jane; Phases; Dead Man’s Party
When Buffy the Vampire Slayer arrived in Sunnydale, she befriended a bookish, insecure girl named Willow. As a Slayerette, Will uses her computer prowess for good, hacking into electronic government files and researching obscure rituals on the Web. But Willow’s love life is severely lacking, consisting of an unfulfilled crush on her friend Xander and a short-lived fling with a deadly demon she met over the Internet.
   Through her often life-threatening experiences with the Slayer, Willow gains the confidence to just be herself in the peer pressure-filled world of high school. And when her first real boyfriend, Oz, turns out to be a bit… unusual… in his own right, Willow is just the girl to prove that love really is blind… and a little scary.

The Willow Files: Volume 2
Yvonne Navarro
Gingerbread; Doppelgangland; Choices
Since the self-proclaimed “science nerd” had the odd luck to fall in with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow Rosenberg has come into her own. As a member of the Scooby Gang, Willow used her skills as savvy ‘Net girl to help save the world on more than one occasion. But as time passed, Willow’s powers evolved from Web surfing to the limitless realm of magic. And with that change came some difficult life lessons.
   Willow has always longed for more parental guidance, but when Sunnydale’s adults are swept up in a witch hunt, Willow finds that her mother’s judgment really bums. And who knew that her forays into the black arts would bring her literally face-to-face with an alter ego “Old Reliable” never imagined existed? Ultimately, though, when it comes time to take charge of her future, Willow realizes that whether it be as a computer hacker or Wicca extraordinaire, she can go further than she had ever dreamed… by staying right where she has been all along.

The Faith Trials
James Laurence
Faith, Hope and Trick; Revelations; Bad Girls; Consequences
“A Slayer’s life is simple. Want. Take. Have.”
   Sometimes, it’s gotta be a drag to be the Chosen One. Occasionally a girl would rather be at the mall, talking on the phone, or even doing homework than saving the world from unstoppable evil. Fortunately, Buffy Summers has always had a support system of friends and family to help her cope.    But what if she hadn’t?
       She might have been just like Faith. Faith, the “shadow-self” Slayer, is strong, sexy, and wilful. When she first arrives in Sunnydale, Watcher-less and fancy-free, Buffy has doubts about the tag-team approach to patrol. As time goes on, though, she learns to find the fun in synchronized slayage, and appreciates Faith’s zest for life… Until Faith’s impulsive attitude toward her calling takes her one step too far, and her inability to cope with consequences eventually pushes her over the edge…

The Journals of Rupert Giles
Nancy Holder
Helpless; A New Man; Blood Ties
Buffy Summers is hip, modern, and pop culture savvy. Rupert Giles, her Watcher, is a stuffy Brit whose idea of bliss is a good book and a strong cup of tea. Odd as the duo may be, though, they have managed to avert their fair share of apocalypses. Plural.
   One thing they can’t seem to conquer, however, is Buffy’s bad birthday luck. At eighteen, Buffy is subjected to a Watcher’s Council Cruciamentum, a test of her own non-physical wiles — and of Giles’s attitude toward both his charge and his calling, as well. And when the Slayerettes throw a surprise party for Buffy’s big 1-9, Giles finds himself feeling useless and out-of-the-loop-y. But it is at the Slayer’s twentieth birthday gathering that both Buffy and Giles are forced to re-examine the nature of blood ties and the definition of family — or risk losing a mutual loved one more important to them — and the fate of the world — than either ever imagined…

The Cordelia Collection
Nancy Krulik
Out of Mind, Out of Sight; Some Assembly Required; Homecoming
“Being popular is not just my right, but my responsibility, and I want you to know that I take it very seriously.” — Cordelia Chase
   Fashionista and leader of the pack, Cordelia Chase is known throughout Sunnydale High for her irrepressible blend of tactless maxims as much as she is renowned for her beauty. Most students — even the members of her anti-fan club — either want her or want to “be” her.
   Popularity proves a tough cross to bear, though: First, Cordy is stalked by an invisible being fuelled by envy, and later she is deemed an ideal mate for a onetime Sunnydale football star — problem is, he’s currently deceased. But her most dangerous challenge is the race for Homecoming Queen. Forget the dance — Queen C will be lucky to escape with her life!

Chosen: The One
Nancy Holder
Season 7
The First has come to Sunnydale and set its sights on taking down the Slayer. On the side of the White Hats: Buffy, Xander, Willow, Anya, Dawn, Giles, Spike, Faith, Angel, and an assortment of young, innocent, untried Potentials.
   In this season-spanning storyline, Buffy Summers will learn about the primeval origins of her own strength, and have the opportunity to train those would succeed her. And as the forces of evil find their way back to the Hellmouth — where it all began — the Slayer will uncover what being the Chosen One is all about: Power.

Chaos Bleeds
James A. Moore
Season 5
Buffy Summers makes enemies. Powerful ones. She can’t avoid it — it goes with the job of being the Slayer, the one girl in all the world with the strength to destroy vampires and demons. Those who fall foul of her and live to tell the tale tend to harbour resentment and thoughts of revenge. One such is Ethan Rayne; devious, treacherous and suave. Ethan has a history with Giles, too. Their dabbling in the occult in their wilder student days led Giles to accept his destiny as a Watcher and set Ethan firmly on the path to darkness. Now Ethan returns to Sunnydale — surprisingly, asking for Buffy’s help. He seems to have roused The First, the ancient evil that predates humankind. But then The First offers Ethan a deal which will gain him ultimate power. All Ethan has to do in exchange is to lure Buffy into battle…

WICKED WILLOW TRILOGY

The Darkening
Yvonne Navarro
Season 6
In the woods outside Sunnydale, Willow Rosenberg has exacted a terrible revenge for the murder of her lover Tara Maclay: She has captured Warren, the murderous leader of the Trio, and flayed him alive. Her best friends, Buffy Summers and Xander Harris, arrived too late to stop her.
   But the death of Warren isn’t enough for Willow. Now her friends can only watch as the juiced-up witch sets off on a trail of vengeance and magic-gathering to prepare the spell that will bring Tara back to life. And whoever gets in Willow’s way is going to regret it… including one Slayer who is still hoping to save her best friend.

Shattered Twilight
Yvonne Navarro
Season 6
Even Willow’s own coven has turned against her now. Condemned for saving Buffy from their evil phantom and for not protecting the other coven members fully, as she had promised, Willow must come up with a way to restore herself to them — and to reinforce her position of power, which hangs in the balance.
   But the truth — that she battled the phantom because the ghost of Tara told her to — will only lower Willow’s status in the eyes of her coven. It is time for big magic. Infallible magic.
   And as Willow turns to the elements for protection, Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies must find a way to fight back without losing Willow forever…

Broken Sunrise
Yvonne Navarro
Season 6
The Ghost of Tara has disappeared. At first Willow thought it was because of something she’d done — or worse, that the universe was again conspiring to hurt her. But it’s almost impossible to keep secrets from a witch, especially one as powerful as Willow, and ultimately she learns that Buffy and the gang are the culprits.
   Willow desperately wants Tara back. Not only does she miss her immensely, the spirit’s presence is necessary to perform the resurrection spell Willow’s been working on. Though her first impulse is to charge off and bring her wrath down upon the heads of her old friends, her coven reminds her that in the past, when Willow has allowed anger to control her, she has failed. Willow must develop an alternate plan to regain Tara’s spirit and perform the spell.
   Buffy and the Scoobies hope to drain Willow’s power, and release Spike and Oz from their enslavement. But Willow’s anger is endless, and it seems she’ll stop at nothing in her fight to bring Tara back, no matter what the cost…

THE UNSEEN TRILOGY

The Burning
Nancy Holder & Jeff Mariotte
Season 4
It’s summertime in Sunnydale, and Salma de la Navidad, a friend of Buffy’s from Sunnydale High, needs help. She and her family immigrated to America, and now she fears her brother, in an attempt to gain social acceptance, has stumbled into supernatural gang warfare. To make matters worse, an unknown creature has been doing a little night stalking. Buffy is certain that this new demonic presence has its roots in L.A. — Angel’s turf. So with the help of the Slayerettes, she heads off to battle demons — both actual and personal.
   Meanwhile, in the City of Angels, Cordelia stumbles upon a vampire-worshiping cult of runaways as Angel investigates an invisible presence wreaking havoc in the local prisons.
   Now Buffy and pals must deal with identity crises of their own. Buffy may be the Chosen One, but she is, ultimately, expendable. Angel is unique, yet his particular status isolates him from humanity and monsters alike. So while all wonder — “do I make a difference?” — the humans and demons who surround them answer that question in astonishing ways…

Door to Alternity
Nancy Holder & Jeff Mariotte
Season 4
In Los Angeles, Angel and Buffy compare notes and realize that both are dealing with cases of missing teenagers — most of them children of the rich and powerful. Coincidence? They don’t think so. But when Buffy checks in with Giles, she learns that prime-time doomsday has hit Sunnydale, taking precedence over the gang warfare in L.A.
   Back in her hometown, Buffy finds the doorway through which the monsters are gaining all-access passes to our universe. Renegade scientists have discovered how to open the portals from one reality to the next, which could explain where the teens are hidden. But when you’re operating near a hellmouth, opening dimensional portals is tricky business: you never know who — or what — you’re going to attract. With the lives of the kidnapped teens and one dangerously talented young woman at stake, Buffy and Angel join forces to do battle in the uncharted dimension…

Long Way Home
Nancy Holder & Jeff Mariotte
Season 4
Buffy and Angel find themselves launched into a frightening reality where fierce dragons and other fairy-tale monstrosities rule supreme. Once they locate each other, they rally the missing teens — including Alina — and attempt to make their way through the interdimensional portal back to Sunnydale. Little do they know that two unlikely allies have also come through to alternity: Spike and the rogue Slayer, Faith, both with their own respective — and complicated — MOs.
   Back in LA, gang violence and vigilantism are at a fever pitch. The Slayerettes — now an extended unit — are holding down the fort, awaiting Buffy and Angel’s return. But Slayer and Vampire are feeling a moral conflict that rivals the physical strain of demon-slaying: each wonders if a reality exists where their love could have survived. And when one of the duo’s charges is suddenly killed, the portal to Sunnydale is sealed. Now, before they can worry about ridding their own universe of supernatural chaos, they’ve got to find a way to get back to it…