Daughters of the Moon

The Daughters of the Moon are mortal goddesses whose destiny is to fight an ancient evil called the Atrox and its Followers. The series centers on four or five Daughters throughout, although there have been other Daughters in the past and it is possible that perhaps there are others in the world.

Origin
The Daughters origin is explained by the myth of the moon goddess Selene and her lover Endymion. The myth is described in the prologue of Goddess of the Night, which tells that Endymion gave Selene many daughters "to guard the night."

The Choice
When a Daughter reaches her seventeenth birthday, she must make an important choice: either to give up her powers and all her memories of life as a Daughter, or to disappear. The Daughters who disappear may become guardian spirits or something else, but it is not known to them. Of course, if a Daughter stops being a Daughter before her metamorphosis - for example, to become a Follower - then the choice does not need to be made.

The ninth book in the series, The Choice, is named for this important decision, which Jimena makes at the end of the book.

Known Past Daughters

 * Vanessa Cleveland - At the end of The Final Eclipse, Vanessa chose to lose her memory of being a Daughter when she turned seventeen.
 * Serena Killingsworth - Serena becomes a Goddess of the Night and stays with Stanton in Nefandus.
 * Jimena Castillo - At the end of The Choice, Jimena turns seventeen and loses her memory and power, but later becomes the Daughters mentor and develops a power similar to her previous one.
 * Catty Turner - Catty loses her life to destroy the Atrox at the end of The Final Eclipse.
 * Tianna Moore - Tianna was not born a Daughter, but became one after saving the other Daughters from Followers and having the title bestowed upon her by Selene. She is destroyed by the Atrox.
 * Zoe Reese - Zoe is Catty's birth mother, who became a Follower.