"amusing vampire romance"

In Broken Heart, Oklahoma, Jessica Matthews, widow mother of two kids takes out the garbage when her fourteen years old son failed to do so as always. However, this time dumping the trash leads to her assault by a starving vampire. When she regains consciousness, instead of the Pearly Gates, she finds she is amidst her garbage with her enlarged canines sunk into the thigh of a naked hunk, Patrick O'Hallorhan.

Jessica is irate though at least at night she has not felt this healthy since she gave birth. However, tired of men using her like her late spouse who left her and their children for his secretary before dying in a car crash, she vows to avenge the bite especially since she fears for her offspring. However, the cretin who bit her owns her sexually and more for at least a century. Her last commitment didn't last two decades and besides Patrick is the vampire her heart wants even as she learns that her town is the center of eerie with the Consortium battling the Wraith.

This is an amusing vampire romance told from the viewpoint of the heroine whose asides bring a bit of a chick lit feel to the story line. Jessica's escapades are fun to follow as she struggles with raising her children normally, getting involved with supernatural politics, hunting her predator and falling in love with her savior. Fans will believe that Broken Heart is the center of the paranormal on the mundane plane as this bard provides a terrific contemporary tale.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 30, 2006

Summary

Does drinking blood make me a bad mother?

Broken Heart is the city with the highest rate of divorce and highest percentage of single parents in Oklahoma. And I, Jessica Matthews, have been a member of that club ever since my husband dumped me for his twentysomething secretary and then had the gall to die in a car accident.

Now I'm not just a single mother trying to make ends meet in this crazy world....I'm also a vampire. One minute I was taking out the garbage; the next I awoke sucking on the thigh of superhot vampire Patrick O'Halloran, who'd generously offered his femoral artery to save me.

But though my stretch marks have disappeared and my vision has improved, I can't rest until the thing that did this to me is caught. My kids' future is at stake...figuratively and literally. As is my sex life. Although I wouldn't mind finding myself attached to Patrick's juicy thigh again, I learned that once a vampire does the dirty deed, it hitches her to the object of her affection for at least one hundred years. I just don't know if I'm ready for that kind of commitment....