Blood Ex Libris

Blood and books and swords and flamethrowers. And one librarian, in over her head.How did I get here: covered in blood and holding a sword I can't use?It all started when the dark and mysterious stranger (he wasn't that tall) showed up at mychildren's reading hour. Of course I noticed him. I'd been single (and bored) for longer than Icare to admit. Me, I'm Anushka (Noosh) Rosetti, head librarian.He turned out to be a vampire. And not just any vampire: Vlad Dracula. Although he goes byanother name, these days, and he says he's changed his violent ways. He definitely seemed moreof a lover than a fighter. At first.In a whirlwind of passion, I made a crucial but impulsive decision: share blood with him a thirdtime, and give up normal human society forever, making my life among the "am'r"-that's whatthe vampires call themselves.The whirlwind just keeps spinning faster. Before I know it, I'm at an am'r summit meeting-andthen, abducted by Vlad's oldest enemy, who's hoping to use me to undo all of my lover and mynew family's plans to save am'r society from tearing itself apart.I thought I was just going to archive some ancient books, but now somehow I have to keepmyself from being used as a pawn by the craziest bad guy ever, escape back to the good guys(and I'm not sure how "good" they really are) across a desert (I don't even know what countryI'm in!) and not be killed in the process. I don't know how I will survive the next five minutes,never mind save my beloved's life, too...