The Morganville Vampires is a young adult urban fantasy series of novels authored by Rachel Caine. The series feature Claire Danvers who is a student at Texas Prairie University and her house-mates in the vampire controlled city at Morganville in Texas. As the mayor of Morganville is human, unknowingly to the majority of the population the city is in fact run in co-operation with a gang of vampires. Morganville is additionally home to an abnormally large number of second-hand thrift shops.