Milkteeth

Beatrice is a broodmother, a vampire whose work is to raise freshly turned fledglings through their earliest years as the undead. Her nest is a deserted, cut-off maze of offices under her patron's skyscraper, and two fledglings are already in her care. Gorgeous, once a heartthrob, now looks like a living corpse and pines for the lover who made him immortal, with a rebellious teenager's fervor.

The second is Fortunata, the scion of Beatrice's mistress, who is alien in her ways and ambitious in what she wants. Beatrice then decides to take in a third fledgling, the result of a siring that went wrong. This one teeters between vampiric purity and ghoulish depravity.

The demands pile up: the rules of vampire society, the physical toll of raising three young monsters, and Beatrice's own ravenous hunger. Her body is changing too. She begins to crave flesh, which no vampire should want, and she swings between desperate hunger and vicious power.

To master herself again, Beatrice courts a mortal OBGYN who may be able to make sense of her unnatural anatomy. This is supernatural horror that bends genre, with a monstrous protagonist at its center. The closer the doctor gets, the more the coven's secrecy is at risk, along with the safety of the nurslings and the humans they would slaughter unsupervised.