Chelsea Von D'Monde-Rodrigueski, beautiful and charismatic, with a perfect body and brilliant mind, was born over 300 months ago to a peasant family in what is now France, on the border of what is now Germany, but was, at the time, called West Germany. She has not aged a day since that fateful night she met Jonas. Darkly handsome, the mysterious German nobleman was at once menacing and magnetic. After a night of passionate melancholy, he revealed to her his terrible secret; he was probably gay. After convincing her to become his eternal beard, he brought her over. Once they were in Germany he turned her into a vampire. For the last 2,100 days she has faced peril and passion with equal disinterest, but all this pales in comparison to the challenge she is about to face...
...the day shift.
In this sequel to her wildly successful Vampire Publisher, authoress Alina Reilly continues her chronicle of the war between two vampire factions. The evil vampires who wish to hunt and kill humans indiscriminately for sport are opposed by the good vampires who only kill humans for very good reasons, such as sport. In this sequel Reilly artfully creates a new protagonist, whose compelling perfection is complemented perfectly by the kind of incongruous yet charming insecurity of every female protagonist ever. Although the lion's share of the novel is taken up by the Chelsea's backstory, this is appropriate in light the improbable chain of events that would lead an immortal creature of the night to take a job as a lifeguard at a public beach. The portion of the story set in the present is just as compelling, as Chelsea's really bad sunburn leads to a frantic quest to find a store that sells aloe and is open after dark while being followed by a mysterious figure who appears to be a villain but is actually Jonas.
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