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The Becoming (The Anna Strong Chronicles) by Jeanne C. Stein
Anna Strong is just your typical teacher-turned-bounty hunter that chases down bail skippers when one of the skips gives Anna and her partner the slip. After leaving her partner (David) unconscious in an alley the skip comes back to brutalize Anna and leaves her for dead. A day or two later (after being seriously sedated at the hospital) Anna gets better and completely loses her reflection. Shocker.
But nothing is ever too easy and once Anna finds out about her new undead status her house burns down and her partner, David, gets kidnapped. Anna is counciled by her new vampire 'Family' to just let it go - that since David is mortal he no longer really matters. Anna is convinced his kidnapping is her fault and takes all necessary steps to find him. This leads her to question her instincts and the many of the people that she knows.
The plot is okay. Nothing too far out of line here. I was a tad weirded out by how easily she accepted the idea of sex with a strange vampire but hey, who am I to judge? Those bits were even glossed over... There also seemed to be no motive given for the villain. Was he just bad? There is absolutely no backstory on him - making him very shallow and Anna is very nearly as bad.
There does seem to be an effort to expand the plot near the end where one of the vampires says something about the villain being right, that Anna is 'the One' which is so cliche ... And the worst thing is that Anna doesn't even pick up on it.
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