She is, however, the state's official vampire executioner. Anita believes there is no such thing as a non-evil vampire. This becomes complicated by her involvement with one of the master vampires. This is where the romance supposedly comes in. My old-fashioned view is that romance should involve some emotional attachment other than lust, which makes this involvement hard to accept.
Vampires are dead.
They have no souls. Personally, I find the romance a little harder to believe than the zombies. Anita has an extremely abrasive personality, and mentions at times that she has never been chased by men. Anita also has a friend who is a psychopathic killer. Apart from the rollicking action, which barely slows, the books are extremely bloodthirsty and gruesome.