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Stake Your Destiny is a gamebook series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels. It was originally published in February–December 2005 by Pocket Books.
Premise
Welcome to Sunnydale High, where midterms and peer pressure are the least of your worries. The Stake Your Destiny series returns Buffy Summers and the Scoobies to the glory days of high school. But this time you control the action and accept the full responsibility of being the Slayer. Interactive story lines advance by the choices you make, leading toward more than a dozen possible endings. Do you have what it takes to be the Slayer, or will you fail and summon a successor?
Continuity
These tales take place in the year 1997, during Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2.
Publications
The series includes 4 volumes.
Novels
| Cover | Title | Author | Release date | ||
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The Suicide King | Robert Joseph Levy | February 8, 2005 | ||
| A rash of student suicides sweeps through Sunnydale High, jolting the community. When the newly arrived grief counselor ends up killing himself, Buffy and the gang begin to suspect there's something supernatural to blame. Soon one of their own begins to show signs of debilitating despondency, and it becomes a race against time for the Slayer to defeat the ancient threat known as the Suicide King. | |||||
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Keep Me in Mind | Nancy Holder | April 26, 2005 | ||
| Ethan Rayne returns to Sunnydale and unleashes a long-trapped evil sorcerer from Middle Ages Bavaria. As if that and Ethan's true motivation weren't enough to keep Buffy from her chemistry homework, she soon finds herself encountering a seemingly random parade of old adversaries out to settle the score. | |||||
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Colony | Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz | September 27, 2005 | ||
| Because of the high incidence of death and violence, the Mayor of Sunnydale has invited a woman called Belakane to speak at Sunnydale High School. Her program, "Be the Ultimate You!" builds self-esteem in teenagers. But Belakane is a demon antlike queen, whose test — and subsequent nurturing of the skills she discovers — is simply part of ber plot to enlist workers to build her colony, and to find mates to help her populate it. Soon Sunnydale High is full of kids with only one trait each: aggressive Slayer, brainy Willow, helpful Oz… and Belakane has only just begun… | |||||
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Night Terrors | Alice Henderson | December 5, 2005 | ||
| Banished to the realm of dreams, the Night Terror stalks its victims as they sleep. By replacing another's soul with its own, the demon can assume anyone's physical body and wreak havoc in the real world. But the effect is short-lived. Human bodies soon break down under the tremendous stress of the transfer, and the Night Terror is forced to find a new body to inhabit. That is, until it discovers Buffy's secret and imagines the Slayer would make an ideal — and permanent — host… | |||||
Behind the scenes
- All books of this miniseries had covers provided by Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic veteran illustrator Jeff Matsuda.