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Liars and Vampires #1
No One Will Believe You
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07C5Z11DV
From Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane...
A compulsive liar. Her vampire stalker. Who's going to believe her?
Cassie Howell was just a normal girl worried about normal things - school, homework, dealing with her parents - until one day she picked up a stalker. But no, not a normal stalker, because that'd be too easy.
A vampire stalker.
Now Cassie is stuck; she has a long history of lying. Faced with Byron Vesper, a vampire with a crush on her who just won't let up, Cassie has no one to turn to, no one to trust. She's in way over her head, and left with two choices:
Find a way to beat Byron at his own game...
...Or die.
From Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane...
A compulsive liar. Her vampire stalker. Who's going to believe her?
Cassie Howell was just a normal girl worried about normal things - school, homework, dealing with her parents - until one day she picked up a stalker. But no, not a normal stalker, because that'd be too easy.
A vampire stalker.
Now Cassie is stuck; she has a long history of lying. Faced with Byron Vesper, a vampire with a crush on her who just won't let up, Cassie has no one to turn to, no one to trust. She's in way over her head, and left with two choices:
Find a way to beat Byron at his own game...
...Or die.
247 pages, ebook
Published April 17, 2018
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About the author
Robert J. Crane
172 books1,168 followersRobert J. Crane was born and raised on Florida's Space Coast before moving to the upper midwest in search of cooler climates and more palatable beer. He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in English Creative Writing. He worked for a year as a substitute teacher and worked in the financial services field for seven years while writing in his spare time.
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January 14, 2021
Just skip it
I just wasn’t a fan of this...at all.
It felt like the story could’ve just started with the last 5 chapters. You can skip the beginning and middle completely. There are barely any characters outside of Cassie that we focus on. We meet her parents, discover she’s a liar (never told why or what was the last straw that caused the family to relocate), she gets one friend and a nosy neighbor but they bail on her when she clearly needs them most and a week later she’s still friendly with Xandra? She meets a friendly vamp at a vampire party... with super senses and no one picked up on the human infiltrator who wasnt attached to anyone?
This story was so preposterous that I just couldn’t imagine reading any of the others in this series. She meets Iona and was blatantly told that Byron was looking for a new her. But no one thinks to mention they both looked alike?
In a nut shell, there’s an underground vampire club with nonviolent camps who don’t like being vamps so the solution is to recruit a teenage girl to maybe possibly kill off the more sadistic vamps.
I just wasn’t a fan of this...at all.
It felt like the story could’ve just started with the last 5 chapters. You can skip the beginning and middle completely. There are barely any characters outside of Cassie that we focus on. We meet her parents, discover she’s a liar (never told why or what was the last straw that caused the family to relocate), she gets one friend and a nosy neighbor but they bail on her when she clearly needs them most and a week later she’s still friendly with Xandra? She meets a friendly vamp at a vampire party... with super senses and no one picked up on the human infiltrator who wasnt attached to anyone?
This story was so preposterous that I just couldn’t imagine reading any of the others in this series. She meets Iona and was blatantly told that Byron was looking for a new her. But no one thinks to mention they both looked alike?
In a nut shell, there’s an underground vampire club with nonviolent camps who don’t like being vamps so the solution is to recruit a teenage girl to maybe possibly kill off the more sadistic vamps.
August 22, 2019
I swear I've read this book before!
I swear that I have read this book before! I knew 1\3 of the way through that I HAD TO HAVE READ THIS ALREADY. It got to the point that I started telling myself what was going to happen (and it did) and I was convinced I knew the ending, so I skipped to end and it has the same ending. It's not so much that I knew the characters names (though they sounded familiar to me but that's not a "biggie" for me. There are only so many names you can use. So of course, the same names keep showing up with regularity) but I knew the plot. This happens to me frequently. I read so many books by such a wide range of Authors and genres that it is happened to me many times. I end up buying a book twice. Get home from bookstore and find the book already on my shelf. This happens to me so frequently that it's a running joke with a local bookstore's staff when I return a book for an exchange! The nice thing about Kindle Unlimited is that when I find that I have read the book, I am not out the time and gas money to exchange a book. However, after researching this book's publication and reading the Author 's Notes that it's suppose to be a fairly newer book. Could one of the Author's already have written and published this book and with the newer collaboration of another Author, that they just chose one of the Author's earlier works and "freshened it up" and added more current suggestions of the new Author's new partner? This is bothering me enough to cost this book a star for a good story in the YA Paranormal world of suspense!
I swear that I have read this book before! I knew 1\3 of the way through that I HAD TO HAVE READ THIS ALREADY. It got to the point that I started telling myself what was going to happen (and it did) and I was convinced I knew the ending, so I skipped to end and it has the same ending. It's not so much that I knew the characters names (though they sounded familiar to me but that's not a "biggie" for me. There are only so many names you can use. So of course, the same names keep showing up with regularity) but I knew the plot. This happens to me frequently. I read so many books by such a wide range of Authors and genres that it is happened to me many times. I end up buying a book twice. Get home from bookstore and find the book already on my shelf. This happens to me so frequently that it's a running joke with a local bookstore's staff when I return a book for an exchange! The nice thing about Kindle Unlimited is that when I find that I have read the book, I am not out the time and gas money to exchange a book. However, after researching this book's publication and reading the Author 's Notes that it's suppose to be a fairly newer book. Could one of the Author's already have written and published this book and with the newer collaboration of another Author, that they just chose one of the Author's earlier works and "freshened it up" and added more current suggestions of the new Author's new partner? This is bothering me enough to cost this book a star for a good story in the YA Paranormal world of suspense!
September 16, 2018
Wow
Now that was a journey in this vampire book. , I didn't think Cassie was going to ever get away from Byron. It seem like everything she tried to do to get away from him and everybody that helped he was right back at her. So what is in store for her next?
Now that was a journey in this vampire book. , I didn't think Cassie was going to ever get away from Byron. It seem like everything she tried to do to get away from him and everybody that helped he was right back at her. So what is in store for her next?
August 10, 2018
Another series from a well established writer
I've read nearly two dozen books from Mr Crane in the last three years and this new series is the first with a co-author, Ms Harper, and for a change, it's YA. Neither facts took away from my enjoyment of this novel. I started this book last Saturday and and by Tuesday night had finished the first three novels in the series. I would have finished the fourth, but it's not coming out until September. How do they write a book in a couple of months? Whatever their technique, I hope they keep it up. The description covers most of what is in the plot, so I'll just add a few comments.
The protagonist is so known for her massive lies that her parents have moved from NY state to Tampa FL. Friendless at a new school, she finds herself stalked by a vampire who is a romantic stew heart, a blood thirsty insane romantic, but nobody's perfect. Getting away, Cassie Howell resolves to stay breathing, no matter what. Cassie rapidly turns into a 17 year-old who leaps first and worries about consequences ... never. If there's one drawback in the first three books, it's the repetition of her record of lies. However, a great series.
I've read nearly two dozen books from Mr Crane in the last three years and this new series is the first with a co-author, Ms Harper, and for a change, it's YA. Neither facts took away from my enjoyment of this novel. I started this book last Saturday and and by Tuesday night had finished the first three novels in the series. I would have finished the fourth, but it's not coming out until September. How do they write a book in a couple of months? Whatever their technique, I hope they keep it up. The description covers most of what is in the plot, so I'll just add a few comments.
The protagonist is so known for her massive lies that her parents have moved from NY state to Tampa FL. Friendless at a new school, she finds herself stalked by a vampire who is a romantic stew heart, a blood thirsty insane romantic, but nobody's perfect. Getting away, Cassie Howell resolves to stay breathing, no matter what. Cassie rapidly turns into a 17 year-old who leaps first and worries about consequences ... never. If there's one drawback in the first three books, it's the repetition of her record of lies. However, a great series.
February 17, 2020
Great intro to a new human/vampire world.
You have to admit that with help or not R J Crane is a machine for great adventures.
Non follows set formulas and you genuinely can't see what's up the road.
All of the serials I have read have great pace, and limited gore (descriptive) and little or no foul language. So that's Mira Brand and Sienna Nellon, can't speak for references and southern cross.
This new story shows a tonne of potential and I find I can't say more about this book without revealing spoilers. Basicly girl vs stalker that happens to be a child of the night. Looking forward to book two and plan to hunt down the rest ....
You have to admit that with help or not R J Crane is a machine for great adventures.
Non follows set formulas and you genuinely can't see what's up the road.
All of the serials I have read have great pace, and limited gore (descriptive) and little or no foul language. So that's Mira Brand and Sienna Nellon, can't speak for references and southern cross.
This new story shows a tonne of potential and I find I can't say more about this book without revealing spoilers. Basicly girl vs stalker that happens to be a child of the night. Looking forward to book two and plan to hunt down the rest ....
January 11, 2020
What do you do if you have a long history of telling lies and something happens that you really need to get people to believe you? Further, what do you do when a vampire seems to be stalking you and sending you flowers? A problem that Cassie, still in school, has to solve. If she can.
If that wasn't enough, what can she do when the stalker kidnaps her parents? Or when she attends a party for vampires, hoping to find an ally?
It's a somewhat unusual take on the typical vampire vs. a teenager story but it works out pretty well.
If that wasn't enough, what can she do when the stalker kidnaps her parents? Or when she attends a party for vampires, hoping to find an ally?
It's a somewhat unusual take on the typical vampire vs. a teenager story but it works out pretty well.
August 10, 2020
As a big fan of Robert J. Crane books, I was excited to start his next series and was not disappointed.
I loved Cassie, she was strong willed and her lying background was the perfect thing to push this book along.
Byron was also a good character who, despite being a villain managed to come across as more complex, something the bad guy tends to lack in books.
My biggest problem with this book that it didn't have enough action. While the climax was a good fight, the rest of the book lacked it.
I loved Cassie, she was strong willed and her lying background was the perfect thing to push this book along.
Byron was also a good character who, despite being a villain managed to come across as more complex, something the bad guy tends to lack in books.
My biggest problem with this book that it didn't have enough action. While the climax was a good fight, the rest of the book lacked it.
February 7, 2021
Boring adolescent nonsense
Because I like the girl in the Box series I got this book to try. I struggled through while waiting for appointments and orders.it took months because it was so bad. I kept forgetting to load a better book and was stuck with this garbage. Maybe, if I was 12 years old I might have been able to enjoy it. But, I have a hard time believing Crane wrote this nonsense unless he had a rapid deadline to get a book out. I won't make the mistake of wasting my time again.
Because I like the girl in the Box series I got this book to try. I struggled through while waiting for appointments and orders.it took months because it was so bad. I kept forgetting to load a better book and was stuck with this garbage. Maybe, if I was 12 years old I might have been able to enjoy it. But, I have a hard time believing Crane wrote this nonsense unless he had a rapid deadline to get a book out. I won't make the mistake of wasting my time again.
May 9, 2018
This isn't the stereotypical vampire story. But coming from this author you're guaranteed a great read and it definately is. The plot for this one gives potential for what looks to be another popular series and I really liked Cassie as a character. She has baggage which adds to the drama and is sure to be developed further as her story continues. Looking forward to reading how the consequences of what she's had to do to survive, will carry through into book 2. Thumbs up from me!
May 14, 2018
I wish I could character higher...
As a Girl in / out The Box fan i really wish I could give a higher score for this, however characters and plot failed to grab me and the dialogue / banter fell short of the standard Sienna and her crew set. Maybe I'm being unfair, after all there have been dozens of Sienna books for me to fall in love with, and for this reason alone I will give book 2 a go.
As a Girl in / out The Box fan i really wish I could give a higher score for this, however characters and plot failed to grab me and the dialogue / banter fell short of the standard Sienna and her crew set. Maybe I'm being unfair, after all there have been dozens of Sienna books for me to fall in love with, and for this reason alone I will give book 2 a go.
January 10, 2020
Definitely a teen or preteen book series
I loved the “Out of the box” series with Sienna and Co so thought I’d try another one of his books. This is definitely for a teen reader. The storylines and characters are too immature and I’m unable to relate to them. That and I can’t imagine ever being that stupid as a teenager. I gave it 4 stars, even though personally I didn’t care for it, because I can see preteens and immature teenagers enjoying it.
I loved the “Out of the box” series with Sienna and Co so thought I’d try another one of his books. This is definitely for a teen reader. The storylines and characters are too immature and I’m unable to relate to them. That and I can’t imagine ever being that stupid as a teenager. I gave it 4 stars, even though personally I didn’t care for it, because I can see preteens and immature teenagers enjoying it.
September 20, 2021
Great Story!
Please consider a reliable proofreader. All kinds of errors in this book. Formerly and formally do not mean the same thing; prepositions all over the place are a couple things I noticed. It looked like sentence structure was changed mid-sentence so verb tense and prepositions didn’t agree or were duplicative. Just sayin’. Yet I thought the story was good so I’m headed to book 2 in this series.
Please consider a reliable proofreader. All kinds of errors in this book. Formerly and formally do not mean the same thing; prepositions all over the place are a couple things I noticed. It looked like sentence structure was changed mid-sentence so verb tense and prepositions didn’t agree or were duplicative. Just sayin’. Yet I thought the story was good so I’m headed to book 2 in this series.
January 4, 2024
(3.5 ⭐️)
The beginning and end of the book was so eventful and action packed, I couldn’t get enough at these points. But the middle part of the book was a bit slow and dragged on for a bit. Some of it was repetitive and I just feel it could’ve been shorter and it would’ve gotten more stars from me. I wasn’t hooked all the way through is the way to say it. Only some parts got my attention, but when they did I couldn’t stop! Btw I hate Byron 😘
The beginning and end of the book was so eventful and action packed, I couldn’t get enough at these points. But the middle part of the book was a bit slow and dragged on for a bit. Some of it was repetitive and I just feel it could’ve been shorter and it would’ve gotten more stars from me. I wasn’t hooked all the way through is the way to say it. Only some parts got my attention, but when they did I couldn’t stop! Btw I hate Byron 😘
May 30, 2025
I didn’t realise when I started this book that the FMC was a high school kid. I try to avoid books with high schoolers as MCs because of age ick. I also try to avoid unnecessary DNFs so I finished it anyway and was pleasantly surprised. The book was engaging and well written, and the teenness of the FMC was only mildly annoying. It’s part one of a series and I’ll probably read more of it at some point.
May 7, 2020
Interesting.......
I enjoyed reading this story. It has enough drama and action to keep you reading right till the end. Biggest negative is all the errors. This could have been so much better with a good proof read for corrections.
Thanks Robert for this story and I'm on to the next read
I enjoyed reading this story. It has enough drama and action to keep you reading right till the end. Biggest negative is all the errors. This could have been so much better with a good proof read for corrections.
Thanks Robert for this story and I'm on to the next read
May 23, 2018
Good first book
Started out a little slow but the book sets up well for a longer running series. Well contained story line for reading a book but enough open questions to give lots of plot hooks.
Started out a little slow but the book sets up well for a longer running series. Well contained story line for reading a book but enough open questions to give lots of plot hooks.
September 8, 2019
Awesome story
This could do far easily be a YA novel. The girl has issues with !ying, but how will she convince her family she is telling the truth about a vampire stalker who thinks she's his juliet? Very nicely done.
This could do far easily be a YA novel. The girl has issues with !ying, but how will she convince her family she is telling the truth about a vampire stalker who thinks she's his juliet? Very nicely done.
February 2, 2020
Stalker
Young heroine runs afoul of a night stalker with just the right amount of Buffy. Creatures of the night embrace the sunny 🌞state of Florida. Can she evade any more supernaturals.
Young heroine runs afoul of a night stalker with just the right amount of Buffy. Creatures of the night embrace the sunny 🌞state of Florida. Can she evade any more supernaturals.
March 14, 2020
I think the plot is very weak and the characters having no connection at all. The main female lead has the habit of lying to her parents and with friends. I felt the story was lame and content a drag to read.
May 21, 2021
Mmmm
This really took a long time to go anywhere ,I stuck with it hoping there would be some conclusion and looks like it was just a long winded way of setting scene for next book .
This really took a long time to go anywhere ,I stuck with it hoping there would be some conclusion and looks like it was just a long winded way of setting scene for next book .
March 10, 2022
Impresive
Hey I'm a fam of of this author. He impressed me with the girl in the box series. This book is a good read. Not to follow a series but really good read. Well written always impressive in the details.
Hey I'm a fam of of this author. He impressed me with the girl in the box series. This book is a good read. Not to follow a series but really good read. Well written always impressive in the details.
March 15, 2022
Amazing series
Amazing start to a new series for me. Really enjoyed that this was not a normal soppy vampire love story. Loved the writing style, action and characters. Cannot wait to read the next book!
Amazing start to a new series for me. Really enjoyed that this was not a normal soppy vampire love story. Loved the writing style, action and characters. Cannot wait to read the next book!
May 17, 2022
4 ⭐️
Thought I’d read something different as I used to love reading vampire books when I was younger! I loved this book, very young adult/teen book with some cringe use of wording but I can’t lie I did enjoy this story and can’t wait to read the rest of the series.
Thought I’d read something different as I used to love reading vampire books when I was younger! I loved this book, very young adult/teen book with some cringe use of wording but I can’t lie I did enjoy this story and can’t wait to read the rest of the series.
October 11, 2022
Kept my Interest
The story is compelling. A good read. I did want to find out what happens to the main character, but I didn’t connect with her. Some of the things she did were not believable for the way her character was presented and for a teenaged girl.
The story is compelling. A good read. I did want to find out what happens to the main character, but I didn’t connect with her. Some of the things she did were not believable for the way her character was presented and for a teenaged girl.
April 11, 2023
Fun Little Vampire Romp
Almost like a novella or a short story but just a bit more. Fast read. Fun Twinkie of a book — as in tasty with no nutritional value. Would love to see more of this Florida Vampire World, and this quirky, spicy heroine. Definitely moving on to Book 2.
Almost like a novella or a short story but just a bit more. Fast read. Fun Twinkie of a book — as in tasty with no nutritional value. Would love to see more of this Florida Vampire World, and this quirky, spicy heroine. Definitely moving on to Book 2.
July 31, 2024
DNF. Made it to the second chapter, a tedious main character and an extended pursuit by a villainous harasser. borrowed this edition on July 12, 2024. | Manage Kindle Unlimited Book. Read Kindle book using Alexa audio asset. The Book had a good premise but went nowhere.
July 10, 2025
Was a okay read
I enjoyed it. Would I read it again - No. Am I bitin
g to read the 2nd one ? No.
Others may enjoy it. That's books for you , we either love them or hate them and that's OK.
I enjoyed it. Would I read it again - No. Am I bitin
g to read the 2nd one ? No.
Others may enjoy it. That's books for you , we either love them or hate them and that's OK.
August 2, 2025
Hard to put down
This has a great story line. I thought it was unfortunate that the vampires weren't able to be outside in the daylight. Poor Byron in love with the girls that are having difficulties.
This has a great story line. I thought it was unfortunate that the vampires weren't able to be outside in the daylight. Poor Byron in love with the girls that are having difficulties.
April 22, 2018
Couldn't pout this book down
This book was so well written, I couldn't point out down. Such a day and easy read. I can't wait to see what adventures await our heroine, Cassie.
This book was so well written, I couldn't point out down. Such a day and easy read. I can't wait to see what adventures await our heroine, Cassie.
April 25, 2018
Okay
I love this author, but these characters seem a bit underdeveloped to me. Decent story. Some typos made it through, as usual.
I love this author, but these characters seem a bit underdeveloped to me. Decent story. Some typos made it through, as usual.
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