It’s perhaps the best and most perfect vampire spoof in recent times. Non-stop tongue-in-cheek witticisms combined with gory details, danger, mayhem and mischief galore serve to make Undead and Unwed a deadly cocktail of pure, unadulterated fun. Caught in an unwanted power struggle, in a world that is new, fascinating and yet somewhat repulsive to her human sensibilities, Betsy struggles to find her niche as she deals with lovers, slaves, family, friends and foes of all kinds. Romantically, her heart and mind fight a bitter battle as a seductive bloodsucker seeks to make her his own. When forced to attend a sort of vampire convention at a cemetery, Betsy comes to the awful realization how exactly this uniqueness means trouble for her in the scheme of larger things, vampire-wise.

More shocks are in store for poor frazzled Betsy when none of the popular myths about vampires (as perpetuated by movies) such as taking God’s name or being touched by holy water or sunlight have any fatal effect on her. A frustrated Betsy soon finds that not only can she not die again, but that she now has superhuman capabilities - and that she’s a vampire! Soon man and animal alike fawn upon her even as she’s revolted by her own thirst for human blood.

A few days later, she wakes up inside her own coffin and scares herself silly upon realizing that she has joined the ranks of the 'undead'. On the day of her 30th birthday, Elizabeth 'Betsy' Taylor is let go from her job as a secretary, and comes home only to get killed in a car accident.

Undead and unwed by maryjanice davidson