num_pages: 480
description: With a wink and a nod to Bram Stoker New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith unites the casts of Tantalize and Eternal in a delicious dark fantasy her fans will devour.Youll try to fight it. But youll only be fighting your true self. Its done. Its destined. In time youll come to accept it. He pulled back his sleeve to reveal two dress watches. In time youll come to me.Quincie P. Morris teen restaurateuse and neophyte vampire is in the fight of her life  or undeath. Even as she adjusts to her new appetites she must clear her best friend and true love the hybrid werewolf Kieren of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions of Bradley Sanguini the seductive vampire-chef who blessed her; and keep her dead parents restaurant up and running. She hires a more homespun chef and adds the preternaturally beautiful Zachary to her wait staff. But with hundreds of new vampires on the rise and Bradley off assuming the powers of Dracula Prime Zachary soon reveals his true nature  and a flaming sword  and they hit the road to staunch the bloodshed before its too late. Even if they save the world will there be time left to salvage Quincies soul?
language: English
title: Blessed
publisher: Candlewick Press