So yeah, ok. This is a sleazy, cheesy, paranormal romance featuring a vampire. I'm not proud.
Nina Bangs is such a fun author, though. She's written a whole series of very imaginative books, (this is the latest entry) which take place in a paranormal adult fantasy theme park called the Castle of Dark Dreams. The castle is owned by a character named Sparkle Stardust and her "golden god" of a lover with the also-improbable moniker, Ganymede, who actually spends the vast majority of his time shape-shifted into the form of a chubby, food-loving feline. (Don't ask.)
These two troublemakers have hired all manner of paranormal entities to perform fantasy scenarios for all the unsuspecting human park attendees who just believe that it's all make-believe. The castle also employs some humans, but with the exception of the main character Cinn Airmid, they really don't figure in very prominently. Cinn is hired to be the castle's horticulturist, aka, the plant lady. On the surface, this seems innocuous enough, but it turns out that Cinn has some formidable goddess-given talents when it comes to breeding new plant varieties.
What you have here is a ticked-off goddess who feels like Cinn's meddling with things she has no business messing with, a ticked-off vampire-daddy who's mad 'cause his baby boy won't come when he's called, brothers who haven't seen each other for 200 years, and two cosmic trouble makers who moonlight as matchmakers. It's a mess, but a fun mess. And these vamps are hot!
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