Available April 2008

Courting Morpheus

FrankenBeans

by Donna Shelton

Due October 2009

CURRENT  PROJECT 

Young Adult Fiction

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MY MOM'S A VAMPIRE

by Donna Shelton

As if being a teenager isn’t hard enough, imagine what life is like being a teenager and having a vampire as a mom. That’s what Tress Fury has to deal with. When Tress was seven, her parents went on a trip to Las Vegas, where a vampire killed her dad and turned her mom into a creature of the night.

Somehow Tress’s mom managed to keep enough of her humanity to stay around and care for her daughter as a single parent.

When Tress gets old enough to put the pieces together and discovers her mom didn’t survive the attack and she was a vampire, Tress is stuck with the pressure of keeping her mom’s secret.

Tress finds comfort in the company her best friend Chloe - who she shares everything with - but still she finds it hard to cope with the burden of her secret resting heavily on her shoulders.

Chloe eventually figures out that her best friends mom is a vampire and tries desperately to convince her that she's in danger. Now Tress is faced with the burden of coming clean and confessing to everything or staying strong and keeping her secret.

Then when her mom’s sire comes back to confront her, Tress’s secret is revealed. And when it seems that life can't get any worse, she learns that the school bad boy Johnny Walker is more than he appears to be.

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