Okay, so she'd dated a vampire. Maybe she got carried away one night. Becoming a vampire seemed a high price to pay for being foolish. Nor was this whole transformation thing starting off the way it was supposed to for Marcie Montgomery. She was hungry all the time - not for blood, but tacos and french fries and cheeseburgers, oh my. Then there was Niccolo Maddock, the Master Vampire who was acting as her mentor. Just what did he want? Going from being an insurance adjuster to a vampire could confuse the most level headed person and Marcie had always considered herself a pragmatist. Even when she was faced with relatives who weren’t who they'd always been, witches who were out to annihilate her, and the stunning knowledge of her own powers. Add in werewolves, shape shifters, and other Brethren and life in South Texas suddenly became very complicated. When Marcie discovered she alone could transform the vampire race, she was faced with a choice: to embrace who she was or change her destiny. Why should anything be easy?

Life was getting stranger instead of easier. Not only was Marcie Montgomery still craving tacos - and any kind of cheesecake - now she was lusting after her knight in confusing armor. Plus, she knew her dog wasn’t exactly a dog. Witches and explosions, a murderous mother escaped from jail, half-mad members of human-only groups, the evil Niccolo Maddock, and the gynecologist from hell all add up to make Marcie’s life just like the Chinese curse: it is better to live as a rat in a cage of cats than it is to be a vampire anywhere.

In the third book of the Montgomery Chronicles trilogy, the witches have almost gotten to the point of claiming Marcie Montgomery, at least since the Witch Test. If Janet Travis has anything to do with it, however, Marcie would be banished to the next universe before being publicly acknowledged as a Super Duper Witch. Marcie doesn’t care about Janet’s antipathy; she has other things to worry about. Mike is dying and she thinks she’s the only one who can save him. Opie reveals herself to an unlikely ally. Dan’s assistant turns out to be a redhead with a body made for fooling around, and Marcie’s things are disappearing. Plus, she’s developing odd powers. She can view things remotely, control vortexes, and “feel” Dan. A good thing, too, because he’s disappeared. Just when Marcie was ready to tell him “the” secret, he ups and vanishes. What’s a goddess to do? Well, fight the vampires, the Brethren, and anyone else who thinks they’re going to hide Dan away. That includes Dan’s mother who has kept a secret all this time. So has Dan. He isn’t quite human. In fact, he’s the one thing she never considered. Oh, dear, how will that affect the baby she’s carrying?