Death of a Dustbunny

DON'T HIDE UNDER THE BED
When Elena Ruiz disappears, five-year-old Steven Holman is convinced that a vampire has taken his nanny. Stella the Stargazer, astrological advisor to the lovelorn, is certain there are no vampires, and she also knows that Elena, whom she was tutoring, wouldn't walk away from her charge; only Steven has the clues to the nanny's disappearance. So Stella has taken over Elena's job temporarily to find her friend.

Pulled into the fragile relationship between the single father and his son, Stella begins to suspect secrets that Elena may have been silenced to keep. Between comforting the boy and trying to put her own haphazard life in order, Stella discovers a trail that leads to monsters of a very human sort....