**From award-winning and national bestselling author, Robin McKinley,
comes this dark, sensual vampire fairy tale. A gripping, funny,
page-turning, pretty much perfect work of magical literature.--Neil
Gaiman
**
"Sunshine" is what everyone calls her. She works long hours in her
family's coffeehouse, making her famous "Cinnamon Rolls as Big as Your
Head," Bitter Chocolate Death, Caramel Cataclysm, and other sugar-shock
specials that keep the customers coming. She's happy in her
bakery--which her stepfather built specially for her--but sometimes she
feels that she should have life outside the coffeehouse. One evening she
drives out to the lake to get away from her family, to be alone. There
hasn't been any trouble at the lake for years.
But there is trouble that night for Sunshine. She is abducted by a gang
of vampires who shackle her to the wall of an abandoned mansion, within
easy reach of a figure stirring in the moonlight. Sunshine knows that he
is a vampire and that she is to be his dinner. Yet when dawn breaks he
has not attempted to harm her.
And now he needs her help to survive the day...