Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire... fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil... until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops.
Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don't exist), and they're shocked she survived. They're even more shocked when Pearl discovers she can now withstand the sun. But they quickly find a way to make use of her new talent. The Vampire King of New England has chosen Pearl's family to host his feast. If Pearl enrolls in high school, she can make lots of human friends and lure them to the King's feast -- as the entrees.
The only problem? Pearl's starting to feel the twinges of a conscience. How can she serve up her new friend - especially the cute guy who makes her fangs ache - to be slaughtered? Then again, she's definitely dead if she lets down her family. What's a sunlight-loving vamp to do? ~~ synopsis from Goodreads
About the author
Sarah Beth Durst is the author of
Vessel,
Drink, Slay, Love,
Enchanted Ivy, and
Ice from Simon & Schuster, as well as
Into the Wild and its sequel
Out of the Wild from Penguin Young Readers. Her next book for teens,
Conjured, comes out in September 2013 from Bloomsbury/Walker. Her first book for adults,
The Lost, comes out in November 2013 from Harlequin/Luna.
She has been writing fantasy stories since she was ten years old and holds an English degree from Princeton University, where she spent four years studying English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles would say if they could talk. Sarah lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband and children.
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