June 1, 2007
Broken Heart, Oklahoma, is now a center for paranormal activity of the vampire kind after a PTA meeting was disrupted by a sick vampire who turned every parent into one of his own kind. Single mother Eva LeRoy is one of the new vampires, and her teenage daughter is adjusting. It helps that the whole town is vampire friendly, except for the renegade group that is trying to kill them. Eva is still testing her new powers when Lorcan, the vampire who transformed her, starts coming around. She knows that he was sick with the taint and has forgiven him, but he has yet to forgive himself. Eva is drawn to Lorcan and relies on him to help keep her spirits up as her idea of normalcy is destroyed and her daughters boyfriend turns out to be a vampire hunter. Bardsley gives her readers a winning follow-up to Im the Vampire, Thats Why (2006) filled with humor, supernatural romance, and truly evil villains.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)