Because Your Vampire Said So — Michele Bardsley

When you're immortal, being a mom won't kill you -- it will only make you stronger.

Not just anyone can visit Broken Heart, Oklahoma, especially since all the single moms -like me, Patsy Donahue- have been turned into vampires. Now I'm forever forty, but looking younger than my years, thanks to my new (un)lifestyle.

And even though most of my customers skipped town, I still manage to keep my hair salon up-and-running, thanks to the lycanthropes prowling around. They know how important good grooming is, especially a certain rogue shapeshifter who's as sexy as he is deadly. Now, if only I could put a leash on my wild teenage son. He's up to his neck in danger. The stress would kill me, if I wasn't already dead. But my maternal instinct is still alive and kicking. And no one had better mess with my own flesh and blood…