Lucy is a young woman that leads a quiet existence. She only lets her hair down at night when she's working as a bartender at a Goth club. This is where she feels can truly be herself. The reason for that is the obsession and fascination that Lucy holds for vampires. She writes poems about them. She reads about them. She even used to want to be one of them.

One night while Lucy's working, a beautiful, but somewhat strange, man enters the club. He asks Lucy for a glass of 1912 Merlot. This begins their banter back and forth because this is a very rare wine and not likely to be found in a Goth club. The man introduces himself as Xavier and asks if she will go out with him. Lucy fills him in on her rule about not dating customers. He tells her that he'll return to the club every night until she relents.

Lucy can't get the enigmatic Xavier out of her head, even though she knows that's quite silly. What she doesn't know is that Xavier is outside on the street beneath her apartment and is secretly watching her intently. He knows that she's his true love, his soul mate, and he's not going to give up until he has her. Something else that Lucy doesn't know just yet is that Xavier is also a vampire and wants nothing more than to make her his eternal companion.

More of a novella than a full length novel, CONDEMNED BY A VAMPIRE, nonetheless catches the reader's attention from the very beginning. That doesn't change as the bittersweet love story of Lucy and Xavier leads you to craving more with each page. Jodie Pierce draws her readers in and enticingly pulls them along on the journey with her characters. It's easy to feel like you've stepped into the story with Lucy and Xavier. You'll be left wishing there was more to come.