Vampire With a Heart

His vampire brother turned Lev Baronovsky a hundred years ago. Since then, he’s waged an internal battle to retain his humanity by refusing to neither kill a human nor turn one into a creature of the night. It’s a tough battle, for his brother, Alexei is his polar opposite.

When Lev’s mortal girlfriend, Carly, dies from complications due to an automobile accident, the vampire is crestfallen. All he wants to do is die and join her on the other side. But how can a soulless son of Dracula be accepted into heaven?  

Thus begins Jeanne Bannon’s YA novella, Beautiful Monster: The Exchange Book I. Bannon does an amazing job developing Lev’s and Alexei’s characters. When we are introduced to Boris, a monster that makes Alexei look like a Disney character, we are appalled by his ugliness and ferocity.

Boris goes way back to the beginning of time. When Alexei met him, Boris was a power hungry older man during the days of the Bolshevik uprising in the brothers’ native Russia. Boris is an immensely strong vampire who Bannon describes as a person with “a strange look in his eye, like a ravenous lion eyeing a lamb.”

Beautiful Monster: The Exchange will keep readers hooked from beginning to end in this 78-page vampire tale. It’s also is a love story that will grip your heart like a vise until its heart-stopping conclusion.

About the Author

Jeanne Bannon, a writer and freelance editor, has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years. She started her career as a freelance journalist before nabbing a job as an in-house editor for LexisNexis Canada. Her debut novel, Invisible, is a superb paranormal YA novel about an unhappy teenage girl who wishes she could just disappear. And then one day she does.

When Bannon is not writing she enjoys spending quality time with her daughters and loving husband, David. She lives in Ontario, Canada.