"Hilarious!"

Michele Bardsley has a wicked sense of humor and it definitely shows in this book! I had a blast reading this hilarious and mysterious vampire novel.

Jessica Matthews lived as normal a life as she could as a widow with two children in Broken Heart, Oklahoma when one night while taking out the garbage, she was viciously attacked by a huge hairy beast and killed. When she woke up, she was latched onto a gorgeous hunk's equally gorgeous thigh sucking his......blood. And this is just the beginning for Jessica!

Not only has she been turned into a vampire but quite a few of the other residents have as well and when they get the whole story, they don't know what to think. All Jessica is worried about is her children, Bryan and Jenny. Patrick, O'Halloran, the man who keeps letting her have his blood assures her that her children are being taken care of very well and that there are bigger fish to fry, if you will.

The problem is Patrick isn't telling Jessica the whole story. He keeps hinting at things and as the story progresses, he gives out information little by little. Oh, and what a story we get! Even Jessica can't believe what is happening! All she knows is she is so attracted to Patrick but it's all about her kids. They have to come first! Will it all work out?

I thoroughly enjoyed Michele Bardsley's foray into the vampire world and I sincerely hope she will see fit to visit Broken Heart in more books!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted October 11, 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....