[1] Prior to becoming a full-time author Painter worked as a college English teacher, maître d', personal trainer, and jewelry salesperson.
House of Comarré is an urban fantasy series set in a world where vampires and other supernatural creatures (called "othernaturals") exist, but try to avoid being detected by the human population, mortals.
Particularly wealthy and influential vampires have the ability to purchase comarrés, humans that have been bred to provide blood of exceptional quality for their "patrons".
By the novel's conclusion Jayne has, under her true identity, assumed managerial control of the store and reconciled with Cooper, with the two agreeing to start as friends.
This gimmick allows its citizens, primarily supernatural creatures such as witches, vampires, and werewolves, to live semi-freely under the guise that they are only acting to entertain tourists.