All I Want for Christmas Is a Vampire (Love at Stake Series #5) »

Kerrelyn Sparks's first paranormal romance, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire, flew out of the bat cave in 2005 and survived three weeks on the USA Today Bestseller list. In 2006, Vamps and the City became the second book in the Love At Stake series. Kerrelyn lives in the Greater Houston area with her husband and brilliant children. At this time, there are no vampires in her family. Werewolves are another matter entirely.

Toni Davis's Christmas wish list

1. Springing my best friend from the psych ward.

2. Living somewhere that doesn't have coffins in the basement. Occupied coffins.

3. Finding Mr. Right. Please make him tall, dark, handsome, and alive.

This Christmas isn't so merry for Toni. Her best friend's been locked up in a mental hospital ever since she told the police she was attacked by vampires, and the only way for Toni to get her out is to prove that bloodsuckers really do exist. So she's taken a job as a bodyguard for the Undead, but she gets more than she bargained for, especially when she meets Ian MacPhie, a Scottish rascal looking for Ms. Right.

Although Ian's nearly five centuries old, he looks and acts like a twenty-seven-year-old hunk.

How can a dead man be so damn sexy? Could Mr. Wrong be Mr. Right? One forbidden kiss could lead to an eternity of passion—and all it takes is one moment under the mistletoe . . .

Kristin Ramsdell - Library Journal

Newly aged vampire Ian MacPhie is looking for love, but it has to be with a female Vamp. Toni, a mortal who works as a vampire bodyguard and whose roommate was attacked by renegade vampires, is out to prove that vampires exist and that her roommate isn't crazy. Ian and Toni clash from the start, but the attraction is there-it's figuring out what to do about it that's the problem. Deception and intrigue are all part of this funny, sexy contemporary vampire tale, the fifth in Sparks's popular "Love at Stake" series. Sparks (The Undead Next Door) lives in the Houston, TX, area.