Just One Bite
A Dead-End Dating Novel
One
Being a five-hundred-year-old (and holding) born vampire, I’ve pretty much seen the worst of the worst.
War.
Famine.
Natural disasters.
Stock market crashes.
Powdered wigs (my father is so not living that one down).
Bottom line, there isn’t much that can shock me, the Countess Lilliana Arrabella Guinevere du Marchette (Lil for short), Manhattan’s numero uno when it comes to matchmakers.
Except walking into the tastefully decorated office of my hook-up service—Dead End Dating—to find an Anthony Soprano clone holding a very lethal-looking stake.
I came to an abrupt stop in the doorway, my Constanca Basto sandals refusing to carry me the rest of the way inside.
Twisted, right? I had the whole super-vamp package working for me. HD vision, enhanced hearing, mind-reading ability. Throw in the glamour trick—the power to mesmerize and persuade the opposite sex with my deep, entrancing stare—and I really had little to fear despite the nuclear toothpick in his meaty hands.
Then again, he was wearing a ...
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