Beauty Is for Suckers: Live by the vein. Die by the vain. (Iri...

**RMFW COLORADO 2014 GOLD WINNER IN SPECULATIVE FICTION** For eighteen-year-old Iris Greene, eternal beauty is a bite away. Iris isn't tall or short. She isn't skinny or fat. She is nothing worth remembering-a ghost through high school. But one bite on the neck will suck that away and fix every flat-chested flaw. One bite will give her a beauty that inspires confidence. A small-town girl from Idaho, Iris moves to L.A. with dreams of an alabaster immortal draining the heat from her pores under a moonlit sky. What she gets is a scratchy mustache sucking on the back of her arm behind an alleyway Dumpster. Her fangs come in, and her heartbeat stops, but her body and face remain unchanged. She looks exactly as she did when she was human, except now, as a vampire, "average" is ugly by comparison. The only one who can fix her now is the man who sucked her dry. With the help of Nolan Dayburn-an amateur vampire slayer unaware of what she is-Iris will face alleys, nightclubs, and the monsters who inhabit each for answers only an Elbow Biter can provide.

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