Jessica Matthews is newly widowed (her cheating husband having died before the divorce was final) and trying to strike a balance with her two children about chores. Unfortunately, they're better at avoidance than she is at compliance, which is why she was taking out the garbage instead of her son. So, when the creature attacked, she became a vampire along with about a dozen others attacked that night. And surprised to learn she's also the long lost love of Patrick O'Halloran or at least the reincarnation of his long lost love. As if life wasn't complicated enough.

(Source: Signet)