While the "Anita Blake"-series shows a tough chick in the world of the undead, Mary Janice Davidson's second installment in the "Betsy, the Vampire Queen" books is more like "Sex and the City" meets "Underworld".
Undead and Umployed starts where the first book Undead and Unwed left off: Betsy has come to terms with her new undead status and has to think about the more mundane issues again - how does an undead girl support herself?! By doing what she knows and what she's good at: selling shoes (and buying a good share for herself;)
Of course there's a good dose of sex, intrigue and humor as well which makes this a good and worthwhile read for fans of romance and such authors as Laurell K. Hamilton or Sherilyn Kenyon.
Here's the text from the back cover:
She may be the Queen of the Undead, but she still has "sole."
Nothing can make Betsy Taylor give up her shoe fetish-even dying and rising as the new Queen of the Vampires. Being royally undead isn't all it's cracked up to be-there are still bills to be paid. And Betsy is determined to live as normally as possible, even it it means getting a job. A "feet" she accomplishes with panache, landing her dream job selling designer shoes at Macy's.
Things couldn't be better-except for her new friends, who keep pestering her while she's on the clock. As if she has time to socialize when there are deliciously sinful shoes to try on-and buy at a discount. IL seems that vampires are being murdered in St. Paul, and they're all clamoring for Betsy to do something about it. The worst part is she's going to have to enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Sinclair'. Now, she's really treading on dangerous ground-high heels and all...