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I'd second the the recs above for select books or series by Tamora Pierce, Madeleine L'Engle, Robin McKinley, Mercedes Lackey. Lackey even has a vampire series, lesser known than her Valdemar stuff, now packaged in omnibus edition, see on Amazon. IIRC, there are some what you might call mature themes, onscreen violence, sexual tension, offscreen sex; there's also a relatively sensible female MC, and her male vampire romance object is a singularly decent guy--my recollection is, at some point the MC has to convince him that it's not abusive to drink her blood if she gives her well-considered informed consent. I think there's a theme of judging people on their actions rather than identities.