title: I'm the Vampire, That's Why
author: Bardsley, Michele
description: Does drinking blood make me a bad mother?
  
  Broken Heart is the city with the highest rate of divorce and highest percentage of single parents in Oklahoma. And I, Jessica Matthews, have been a member of the club ever since my husband dumped me for his twentysomething secretary and then had the gall to die in a car accident.
  
  Now I'm not just a single mother trying to make ends meet in this crazy world.... I'm also a vampire. One minute I was taking out the garbage; the next I awokr sucking on the thigh of superhot vampire Patrick O'Halloran.
  
  But though my stretch marks have disappeared and my vision has improved, I can't rest until the thing that did this to me is caught. My kids' future is stake...as is my sex life. Once a vampire does the dirty deed, it hitches her to the object of her affection for least one hundred years. I just don't know if I'm ready for that kind of commitment.