My Roommate Is a Vampire

Cassie Greenberg is a broke, discouraged artist in Chicago who has all but given up on making it — so when she stumbles on a gorgeous apartment renting for an impossibly low price, she takes it, red flags and all. Her new roommate, Frederick J. Fitzwilliam, is undeniably strange: he keeps vampire hours, dresses and speaks like he wandered out of a Regency novel, and leaves her painfully polite handwritten notes. When Cassie finds bags of blood in the refrigerator, Frederick confesses the obvious truth — he is, in fact, a centuries-old vampire — and then makes her an unexpected proposition.

To satisfy the demands of the local vampire council, Frederick needs to convince everyone that he has successfully integrated into modern human life, and that means presenting Cassie as his very human, very real girlfriend. In exchange, Cassie gets to keep the cheap apartment and a much-needed financial cushion. What begins as an awkward arrangement between two lonely, socially anxious people slowly turns into something that feels a lot like the real thing.

Warm, funny, and low-stakes in the best way, Jenna Levine's My Roommate Is a Vampire is a cozy paranormal rom-com about outsiders finding their person — the first book in the My Vampires series.