Blood and Chocolate / Annette Curt Klause / 264 pages / October Challenge Banned Books

Vivian Gandalon is a teenage werewolf who has fallen in love with a human (meat man), Aiden.  This is, of course, considered a taboo in her pack.  Her father was pack leader before he was killed in a fire.  She is the undisputed princess of the pack after she defeated a rival who threatened her mom.  Vivian believes that love can overcome all, and is heartbroken when Aiden is terrorized by her transformation.  Several vicious murders occur.  Is Vivian responsible?  Great suspense, believable (believe it or not) characters, and romance (Gabriel, the new pack leader, loves and supports Vivian.) make this novel a worthy read.  Like chocolate, it satisfies and soothes.  Blood and Chocolate was challenged in Greenville, South Carolina and La Porte, Texas.  It was pulled from the shelves of the middle school in Greenville, and from the middle and high schools in La Porte for offensive language.