Forum: Lost Stories

So officially my iPod Touch has died a slow and agonizing final death. Over the years I've hunted down and replace a lot of the books that I had on there but now that I can't go back and reference anything I'm stumped on a book title and author for a series about a vampire from Britain Who currently lives in Massachusetts and works as a detective. He lives at a boarding house run by a older lady who owns it. She takes custody of her daughters kids. Her grandchildren come to stay with her becausethe daughter is a horrible mother whos neglecting her own kids. And stole money from her oldest daughter's bank account. Romance and sues between the granddaughter a High School teacher and very old vampire that's not normal vampire. And somewhere along the way a teenager from the neighborhood gets adopted by them and I think it's called a guardian because of a birthmark by his belly button. I want to say I picked up the book around 2010 if you ever take.

Sorry if it's a very confusing description this is all I can remember off the top of my head. I know it's part of a book series. Can anyone help me out any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks so much 🙏

If you synched your touch to your computer, you might still be able to find the epub. IF it's from the Apple Books store, you might have to find a way to get around the DRM... Or you could get an ipad and re-download your book from the store.

Just for clarity, is this a book you likely found on SOL or another online story site, or could this be an ebook version of a dead tree/ trad.pub. book?

Just looking at google - there are several vampire detective books/series but not set in Massachusetts.

Guessing from your "confusing description", this may be a long shot: Wen Spencer's The Black Wolfes of Boston.
Some things match, but far not all.
This is the books description:

REBUILD A LIFE, SAVE A CITY

Silas Decker had his world destroyed when he was attacked by vampires outside of New Amsterdam. He has rebuilt his life a dozen times in the last three hundred years—each time less and less successfully. Now he lives alone, buried under a hoarding habit, struggling to find some reason to wake up with the setting of the sun.

Eloise is a Virtue, pledged to hunting evil. What she doesn't know is how to live alone in a city full of strangers who know nothing about monsters.

Seth is the sixteen-year old Prince of Boston, ward of the Wolf King. Now he is left in a city that desperately needs his protection with enemies gathering all around.

Joshua believes he is a normal, college-bound high school senior. His life is shattered when he wakes up in a field, covered with blood, and the prom committee scattered in pieces about him like broken dolls.

These four must now come together to unravel a plot by Wickers, witches who gain power from human sacrifices and have the power to turn any human into their puppet. Four people who lost everything struggle to save Boston by saving each other.

Eloise is a virtue, a half-angel to find and fight evil.
I don't remember much about the book, I read it when it was published in early 2017.

HM.

You might want to read the Literature section of TV Tropes' page on "Vampire Detectives". Something may sound familiar:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VampireDetectiveSeries

Also, the first thing I thought of was An Old Friend of the Family (1979) by Fred Saberhagen, but it doesn't really fit. The titular Old Friend is Dracula, come to America to find the kidnapped son of a family he's connected to.