It was the year of disappearances. The honeybees were the first to go.

Ariella Montero is no stranger to the dark side of life. Half human, half vampire, she spent her first thirteen years in exile from both societies. When her best friend was murdered, Ari ran away to begin a new life in Florida. But, one by one, the people and things she cares most about keep disappearing. And Ari may be next.

She can hypnotize, she can read minds, and she can make herself invisible, but can she escape her stalkers? Ari's special talents are severely tested as she moves on — from a vampire community in the Sunshine State to college in Georgia to the primeval maze of the Okefenokee Swamp. In contending with the politics of vampire and human cultures, Ari comes face-to-face with zombies that are infiltrating America, as well as demons and shadows that haunt us all.

The Year of Disappearances continues the most surprising vampire story you'll ever read.

Hubbard's fiction has appeared in Triquarterly, Ploughshares, The Mississippi Review, and other journals. Coeditor of 100% Pure Florida Fiction, she is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Project, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Cill Rialaig.

Hubbard has given fiction readings and led writing workshops at universities and arts programs across the United States and the United Kingdom. A past President of Associated Writing Programs, she has served as an assessor and curriculum consultant for several colleges and universities. She lives in Orlando and Cape Canaveral, FL.