Because Your Vampire Said So

Patsy Donahue runs a hair salon in Broken Heart, Oklahoma, a town where every single mother has been turned into a vampire. She is forever forty, though she looks younger, and she narrates her own story in a wry first-person voice.

Most of her customers have left town, but the salon stays open. Lycanthropes prowl the area, and they care about good grooming. One of them is a rogue shape-shifter, as attractive as he is dangerous, and he keeps turning up in her chair and in her thoughts.

Patsy's bigger worry is her teenage son. He is a handful, and he has landed himself in serious danger. Stress would be the death of her if she were not already dead, and she makes it clear that anyone who threatens her child will answer to her.

This is a paranormal comedy with a romantic thread. The tone is light and sassy, with humor drawn from the clash between everyday motherhood and life as an undead woman. The book's setting is a small Oklahoma town full of supernatural creatures, and the pace is brisk.