ISBN 13: 978-0-15-206384-9. Hardback, $17.00.Annotation:
In this book, Jessica meets up with her destiny. Adopted as an infant from Romania, Jessica has grown up in the United States. On the first day of her Senior year, Jessica meets a handsome foreign exchange student from Romania. The mysterious stranger is welcomed by Jessica's family and moves into the garage for their Senior year of high school. Armed with Jessica's birth name, the stranger claims that Jessica is a Vampire Princess and must return to Romania and resume her rightful place.
Book Talk:
Jessica is your normal, ordinary, every day American teenager. She loves Math, Science, and logic. She is looking forward to her Senior Year of high school and all of the excitement that comes along with your last year of school. On the first day of school, she is confronted by a mysterious stranger who calls her by her birth name. The name that no one has mentioned since her parents adopted her from Romania and brought her to the United States. Not only does he know her birth name, he claims that he is her betrothed, and that they've been engaged to marry each other since birth. Not only that, but he claims that they are vampire royalty, and their marriage is required in order to prevent a vampire war.
After a heated discussion with her parents, Jessica retreats to her room where she ruminates about her first day of school:
"And that is how a teenager who claimed to be a vampire came to reside in our garage at the start of my once-in-a-lifetime senior year. And not just any vampire. My arrogant, overbearing, vampire betrothed. The last person in hell - or from hell- I wanted to share a ride to school with, even, let alone be bound to for eternity.
I lay awake half the night thinking about my ruined life. My birth parents; cult members who swore they drank blood- and whom I'd try never, ever to think of again. There was nothing I could do about them now except put them out of my mind. Their story could - and would - remain hidden in the past.
But the future...all I'd wanted was a chance to go out with Jake Zinn, a normal guy, and instead I'd gotten a freakish fiance, right in my garage. As if everyone at school didn't already think my family was bizarre enough, with Dad's yoga and his unproductive, organic, anti-meat farm, and my mombeing the breadwinner, studying make-believe mumbo-jumbo." (pages 33-34)
Fortified by the book "Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire's Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions", Jessica strives to make sense of her world turned suddenly upside down.
Author Web Site:Beth Fantasky
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