"Bloodlines" - Back Cover Blurb

This is a work-in-progress of what will eventually be the back cover blurb/summary of "Bloodlines," my current project. It definitely needs to be shortened and refined, definitely, but for now, this will do as a brief introduction into what's gonna go down.

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A woman reborn amongst yucca and sun, Luna Marron doesn’t care about politics, money, or knowing which one of her cousins replaced her as heir to Lafuente Mercenary Solutions. Her job as an art instructor doesn’t pay much, but it’s fun, flexible, and pays enough to get by living the van life: sometimes on the road, sometimes parked at her uncle’s goat ranch. It’s a slow life and a good life, free of a career monster killer’s tedious responsibilities, and although she misses the family she left behind, she knows her grandparents will never allow her back home—"family" be damned.

But then her younger brother Mael crashes unexpectedly back into her life with grim news: danger is closing in on the Lafuentes, and Luna needs to come home. The humans and the monster-killers who protect them have lost their political leverage in Ciudad del Santo Paraíso, and malicious forces—devils, warlocks and vampires—are eager to return the city to it’s original state: with humans at the bottom of the food chain. Worse yet, those seeking to implement this reorganization of society have already claimed their first victory: the killing of Adelina Amalia, the grandmother who expelled Luna from the family four years ago.

At once, Luna is saddled with all of the responsibilities she left behind years ago: protecting the family, training the kids, securing a marriage alliance with their hated rivals, and mediating her parents’ messy divorce, which has her magically-volatile little sister seconds away from a mental breakdown that may or may not incinerate half the city. Not to mention the annoyance of having to repress the urges of her monstrous side, which has her absolutely, irrationally obsessed with the handsome vampire barista who makes her coffee every morning—and who is not her new fiancé.

All the while, feuds flare into wars, nemeses become partners in survival, and the city free-falls into chaos. If worse comes to worst, the Lafuentes may have no choice but to leave their ancestral home behind—if they don’t die first.