When Lucy suggests in a term paper that the symptoms of untreated diabetes might look a lot like vampirism, she gets in a world of trouble. Then Lucy meets a man who claims to be a real vampire.

Pete Hautman is the author of National Book Award-winning novel Godless, Sweetblood, Hole in the Sky, Stone Cold, The Flinkwater Factor, The Forgetting Machine, and Mr. Was, which was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America, as well as several adult novels. He lives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Visit him at PeteHautman.com.