American Ghoul

A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas,American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary–with a dash of a buddy comedy–in an innovative twist on the vampire genre. You can’t kill someone who’s already dead. That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after–allegedly–killing her mistressSimone Arceaneau. But how could Simone be dead when she was taking callers just a few minutes before? And why was her house always so dark? Lavinaa recently freed slavemet Simonea recently undead vampireby chance on a plantation in post-Civil War Georgia. With nothing remaining for either woman in the Souththe two form a fast friendship and head north. HoweverLavinia quickly learns that teaming up with this white woman may be more than she bargained for. Simone is reckless and impulsive–which would’ve been bad enough on its ownbut when combined with her particular diet Lavinia finds herself in way over her head. As she is forced to repeatedly compromise her morals and struggle to make lasting human connectionsLavinia begins to wonder is she truly free or has she merely exchanged one form of enslavement for another? As bodies start to pile up in the small Indiana town they’ve settled inpeople start to take a second look at the two newcomersand Simone and Lavinia’s relationship is stretched to its breaking point …