BETTER OFF DEAD - Alice Bello

Lucy Hart, an eighteen year old cheerleader had it all - money, status, and the respect (or at least fear) of the students at school - but loses everything when her father is arrested for tax evasion and human trafficking. Now working in a burger joint, which is definitely beneath her, Lucy finds a way to blackmail her father's shyster lawyer and the lawyer learns of a way that Lucy can earn some good money, fast. All she needs to do is pretend to be a rich man's fiancée. Seems simple enough.

But when she actually falls in love with Gabriel, simple turns into complicated. And complicated becomes dangerous when she learns that Gabriel is actually a werewolf, and his real fiancée is a vampire who's ready to kill Lucy for moving in on Gabriel.

There was definitely a lot more story in this than most erotica that I've read, but sometimes things move really quickly and you wonder how the characters made the leap from point A to point B and other times we get long, pointless narration. It felt like this started to be one book and then the author changed her mind.

The writing was fine and I'm mildly interested in reading more.

4 Guilty Pleasure stars