Over My Dead Body (Broken Heart Vampires)

by Michele Bardsley

Book Overview

A single mom finds a man who's hot enough to wake the undead in this Broken Heart novel from New York Times bestselling author Michele Bardsley. With my ex-husband out of my life after attempting... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451226771
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Over My Dead Body by Michele Bardsley

"Over My Dead Body" is book five from Michele Bardsley's hilarious 'Broken Heart Vampires' contemporary series about a small city in Oklahoma that becomes a protected haven for 'good guy' vampires. In the first book, several citizens are bitten by accident and those are the ones allowed to stay...the others are paid and 'enchanted' to leave to live successful lives elsewhere. So basically, we have here an entire city of otherworldly creatures...but many of them were just plain, ordinary people and the titles of Bardsley's books reinforce that: "I'm the Vampire, That's Why"; "Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire"; "Because Your Vampire Said So"; and "Wait Till Your Vampire Gets Home". Funny? Oh yeah. Good reading? Definitely. Simone moves to Broken Heart with her daughter for sanctuary. Since the night Simone's abusive husband tried to kill her, her daughter hasn't spoken and Broken Heart just SOUNDS like a good place to be. Until even stranger things happen...like becoming a vampire, falling in love with a ?human?, developing weird powers, oh and let's not forget another attack by her now undead hubby. You could read "Over My Dead Body" without reading the previous books...but to get the full enjoyment, I'd still recommend looking up the backlist. This series does a wonderful job of combining humor, action, magic (we're not just talking about vampires!), romance, and a continuing storyline that moves along with each book without leaving the reader hanging. Not an easy task, but Michele Bardsley manages with zippy dialogue, steamy love scenes, and just the right amount of written slapstick. If you enjoy laughter, magic, and mommyhood with challenges...check out this series.

Enchanting Review: Over My Dead Body

OVER MY DEAD BODY MICHELLE BARDSLEY Paranormal Romance Penguin Sensuality rating: Spicy Rating: 4.5 Enchantments Simone Sweet is the local mechanic slash anything mechanical tinkerer. She is also a vampire single mom who has a big secret she needs to keep hidden at any cost. Braddock, or Brady as he is known, Hayes is a former ETAC soldier. He used to eliminate the vampire and paranormal scum from the earth and also capture them for testing. Simone Sweet is quite happy with her life. She has a beautiful daughter that she will do anything for, a grandmother who loves her, a job where she is happy with what she does and well she is a vampire so immortality is always with her. When Brady, the local hunk, starts to look her way things could never be better. Suddenly human feeders are starting to go missing, another vampire and her daughter have also gone missing, strange things are happening to Simone, and she could swear her ex husband is back from the grave. When Simone's own daughter goes missing there is nothing that a mother won't do to save her baby. OVER MY DEAD BODY is the fifth book in the Broken Heart series. Simone is one of the survivors of the attack that happened in the first book. I don't remember ever hearing anything about Simone in previous books but she is a character that I really like. She shows us how powerful women can be even if they have been abused. Yes her reaction to the abuse was drastic but thank goodness she did not stay around and take it. Her grandmother cracked me up and I was very happy with how her character developed. I loved out new Pixie friend that joined the character list, he was a hoot. There were only two problems I had with the book. Brady and Simone seemed to already have a relationship going when the book started. There was no courting phase or anything along those lines and I just wish there would have been more about them building their relationship. The second problem I had with the book was it was too short. I look forward to Miss Bardsley's books and I treasure them when they come out but this book was devoured in one sitting. I wanted to savor it more. OVER MY DEAD BODY has earned its place on my shelf along with the other books in the series and I cannot wait to the next book to come out! Michele Bardsley is the fantastic author of many books including her paranormal series and erotica. [...] Jennifer ENCHANTING REVIEWS May 2009

Still breaking hearts

Book continues the story of previous ones and makes me look forward to the next one.

Loved It..

I loved this book!! I understand why Simone had to be soo deceitful, she had to protect her daughter. And who knew that Brady was soo romantic?? I see great things for this series and I can not wait to read the next one!!!

a wonderful blend of humor, romance, and mystery

Single mother Simone Sweet is doing her best to overcome a brutal and troubled past, all the while trying to raise her six year old daughter, Glory, who is suffering from experiences so traumatic that she has retreated into herself and refuses to speak to anyone. Escaping to Broken Heart to live with her deceased husband's grandmother, Simone is trying her best to live a life that will help heal both she and Glory's painful emotional wounds. But little did Simone expect to be turned into a vampire when she arrived in Oklahoma, although this did have the added benefit to help Simone to seemingly "disappear" in the real world. With an affinity for all things mechanical, Simone settles in as Broken Heart's resident mechanic and begins to help the Consortium create a special shield that will, in effect, make the paranormal community invisible to the outside world. While working on this special project, Simone comes into frequent contact with the sexy human, Brady. Tall, brooding, and sexy as hell, Braddock "Brady" Hayes is a PRIS (Paranormal Research and Investigative Services) Operative who has always seemed very quiet and standoffish, so Simone can't help but be surprised when he seems to take a sudden and unexpected personal interest in her. But Brady also has a dark secret -- one he isn't proud of. After Brady experiences tragedies of his own as a young man, he suddenly decided to join the military and ends up volunteering for a special assignment -- ETAC is a covert government operation whose sole purpose is to remove any domestic threats -- including any of the paranormal variety. Spending several years doing their bidding despite knowing it's wrong, Brady finally manages to escape the long arm of the government and ends up helping those he once hunted. As a growing sanctuary for all paranormals, Broken Heart is fast becoming the place for all paranormals to live without the worry of hiding themselves. But with a serial killer on the loose all eyes are turned to Simone and the secret she has worked so hard to keep hidden. With a wonderful blend of humor, romance, and mystery, readers will not be disappointed with best-selling author Michele Bardsley's fifth installment of her Broken Heart series. A fast-paced story filled with a touch of bedlam, Over My Dead Body was a page-turner that had no problem keeping me fully entertained from beginning to end. I particular enjoyed the chemistry between Simone and Brady -- two broken souls who are both hiding secrets of their own yet are trying to move on from their mysterious and troubled pasts. As an added bonus to Over My Dead Body, Bardsley provides a Glossary, A Brief History of the Consortium, and several other references pertaining to Broken Heart that will no doubt be appreciated by both newcomers and long-time fans of the series. *Note: I'd give this 4.5 stars if the rating system would let me* Reviewed by Mippy Carlson