The extreme costs of her medical care, her family opened up a charitableįund in her name in one of the local Pennsylvania banks. In June 2011 it was announced on Banks’ website that she had beenĭiagnosed with late stage adrenal cancer.

Professional in publishing and other aspects of entertainment. She was a founding partner of The Liars Club, a networking group of Originally a nine book series, The Vampire Huntress Legend Series has now been expanded to twelve books (the last being called “The Thirteenth”). īooks 1 and 2 of The Vampire Huntress Legend Series ( Minion and The Awakening, respectively), have been optioned for Hollywood films by GothamBeach Entertainment and Griot Entertainment. Martin’s Press (NYC), Simon and Schuster (NYC), Kensington Publishing (NYC), BET/Arabesque (NYC), and Genesis Press (MS). She contributed to magazines, newspaper columns, and wrote commercialįiction for five major publishers: St. Michael Eslaide, and they had a daughter, she remarried with Al Banks in Leslie Ann Peterson was born and raised in Philadelphia. She won several literary awards, including the 2008 Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year. She wrote in various genres, including African American literature, romance, women’s fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction. Banks died from adrenal cancer she was, 51. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. And when Carlos’s secret drug, Oblivion, finds its way into the hands of the enemies, even the seventh level of Hell comes calling.Leslie Esdaile Banks, née Peterson was an American writer under the pennames of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. In order to retrieve the Key, Carlos and Damali are quickly thrust into a web of vampire politics and intrigue. With a vampire in possession of the Key, the balance between the Light and the Dark have been thrown off and even Damali is deeply effected. He who possesses the Key and the Seal can decide to the outcome of the Final War, a.k.a.

One of the four topside Master vampires has stolen one of the Keys-the living blood of Christ-that opens the sixth seal as foretold in Revelations. But Carlos and Damali should know by now that there is no rest for the saviors of the known world. The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten back and now it Damali Richards and Carlos Rivera (now a Council level vampire) will finally have the chance to settle in and explore their deeper, sexier love.

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