Dinner for Vampires

“Incredible.” –Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy

“[R]evealing… Lenz shares how she escaped a cult life with honesty and dark humor.” –People (“Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2024”)

“A sharp, confessional memoir…Dinner for Vampires rejects the stereotype that only the naïve and broken can fall victim to a cult’s seduction…Lenz’s prose remains light and clear, and often funny, throughout the book, even when it takes a disturbing turn…Lenz movingly presents her awakening as a kind of baptism, and also a return.” –Fran Hoepfner, New York Times Book Review

“Bethany Joy Lenz is taking back her relationship with her faith and her past.” –Olivia Truffaut-Wong, Cosmopolitan

“Tart, refreshing.” –New York Times Book Review (“22 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall”)

“Bethany Joy Lenz’s sharp memoir traces how she became involved with a cultish group called the Big House Family, which took advantage of her for 10 years…. In riveting detail, Lenz recounts how she finally broke free.” –Time (“The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024”)

Bethany Joy Lenz starred in the hit TV series One Tree Hill. Her other acting credits include Guiding Light, Grey’s Anatomy, Charmed, Felicity, Suits, Dexter, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. She is also a recording artist who has released several albums. Lenz currently cohosts the podcast Drama Queens and is the founder/editor-in-chief of the broadsheet newspaper Modern Vintage News.