Iris Scanlon is doing the best she can. She's very human, guardian of her seventeen-year-old sister, Gigi, has a degree in botany, and runs her own daytime concierge service for vampires. It gets the bills paid, and hey. Vampires don't have the same window of time as humans for getting important papers and such filed at buildings that are open 9-5, or even a bit later since the Great Coming Out in the late 90's. She's squeaking by but a little extra financial padding would be pretty nice. So when she trips over her new client, Mr. C. Calix, and he offers her $25,000 for a safe place to live for a week--well, I wouldn't have said no either. And especially not to a Greek (literally!) god of a man. Cal is tyring to hunt down who is poisoning vampires. A simple additive in their Faux Type O, and suddenly a vampire is in the grips of bloodlust and people die. Shouldn't be that hard of a problem to solve for a man with a gift for puzzles, but being poisoned makes the man a little weak and confused. So he does what he can and offers Iris a deal.
Iris is less than happy, originally, with having a vampire in her house. Cal has no idea what to do with Iris and, when she's around, GiGi. In his defense, he hasn't had a "family" in..... a while. Little does Cal know, Iris holds the key to him figuring out his mystery.
This may have been the first Molly Harper book that I read, but it's far from the last. I've since read the Jane Jamison quartet and most of the Half Moon Hollow books. I find them to be funny and the characters to be relateable, even when they aren't necessarily human. The small town attitudes remind me a lot of Kathleen Brook's small town of Keeneston, even though everyone isn't practically related and we don't always see all the characters we know and love. There's something about the small-town vibe that calls to me. Maybe it's saying I need to move to Kentucky!!
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