In this equal parts heartbreaking and joyful ( School Library Journal ) debut YA novel that\'s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End , a teen girl takes a trip to New Orleans with her estranged best friend to find a vampire to save her dying father.
Victoria must figure out how to experience joy and grief at once, trusting all the while that Nicholas will hold up his end of the bargain...because the alternative is too impossible to imagine..
But truly living while her father is dying feels like a betrayal.
She agrees to complete a series of challenges, from scarfing sugar-drenched beignets to singing with a jazz band, all to show she has what it takes to be immortal.
But first, he needs Victoria to prove she loves life enough to live forever.
There she meets Nicholas, a mysterious young man who might give her what she desires.
Armed with research, speculations, and desperation--and helped by her estranged best friend, Henry--Victoria travels to New Orleans in search of a miracle.
Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself--so that she can become one and then save her father.
But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it\'s clear that\'s not going to happen.
Public fear soon drove the Vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together.
Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the unDead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV.
In this equal parts heartbreaking and joyful ( School Library Journal ) debut YA novel that\'s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End , a teen girl takes a trip to New Orleans with her estranged best friend to find a vampire to save her dying father
