Hip, funny Milagro de los Santos thinks she’s finally found love and a home at the California ranch of fabulous Oswald Grant and his urbane relatives, who have a rare genetic disorder that some call vampirism. But Milagro is bewildered when she’s excluded from an ancient and mysterious midnight ceremony whose participants include Oswald’s unfriendly parents, a creepy family elder, and Milagro’s ex-lover, the powerful and decadent Ian Ducharme. What skeletons are the vampires keeping in their designer closets?
When Milagro’s life is threatened by a rogue family member, she flees to the desert to hide. Instead of solitude, she encounters an egomaniacal actor, a partying heiress, a sly tabloid reporter, and a lavish spa full of dark secrets — all of which might help her find a way home.
The book has one mention of Brideshead Revisited and specifically Sebastian in it.
My favorite taqueria was about six blocks away, in a mishmash of cafes, restaurants, bars, and small shops. Because my paperback hadn’t dried, I needed a book. I thought about getting another Bronte novel but discovered a used hardback of Waughs BridesbeadRevisited.
I took my tacos and horchata back to Mercedes’s and read while I ate. This solitary activity usually brought me joy, but my mind kept drifting from the character Sebastian Flyte to the Sebastian I knew, SLIME. Sometimes life intrudes on fiction that way. Sebastian had been so beautiful and clever that I never sensed the corruption at his core. I’d thought that love would overcome the differences of class and culture.
Reading about Sebastian Flyres descent into depravity made me mourn SLIME’s descent into amorality.
Disturbing thoughts were scurrying like beetles around my brain, bringing in crumbs of information. I brushed rhem away, resisting the idea that I might be similarly deluded with Oswald.
It was late when I spackled on nighrtime makeup and sprayed and gooped my hair until it had doubled in volume.