title: Biting Back: A No-Nonsense, No-Garlic Guide to Facing the Personal Vampires in Your Life
author:  Claudia Cunningham 
description: <div>&quot;Written in a page-turning and warm style, Claudia's book offers empowering solutions to effectively remind us to stop inviting trouble into our homes and souls.&quot; -<b>MELODY BEATTIE, <i>NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF &quot;CODEPENDENT NO MORE&quot;</i></b></div><div></div><div></div><br /><br /><div>&quot;...Claudia offers funny, practical support ...for staying in light, love, and gratitude, to keep our vampires away permanently.&quot;</div><div>-<b><i>JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM </i></b></div><div><b><i></i></b></div><div><b><i></i></b></div><div><b><i></i></b></div><div><b><i></i></b></div><div>&quot;Move over Buffy, there's a new slayer in town! -<b>JAYE WELLS,<i>AUTHOR, SABINA KANE URBAN FANTASY SERIES</i></b></div>
zlib_text: **One**
  
  “So, Bella looks good.”
  
  At the counter of the Brotherhood’s kitchen, Zsadist picked up a knife,
  squeezed a head of romaine lettuce together, and started drawing the blade
  through at one-inch intervals. “Yeah, she does.”
  
  He liked Doc Jane. Hell, he owed her. But he had to remind himself of his
  manners: It would be damn tacky to bite the head off a female who was not only
  your brother’s shellan, but who had saved the love of your life from bleeding
  out on the birth table.
  
  “She’s recovered beautifully in the last two months.” Doc Jane watched him
  from the table across the way, her Marcus Welby, M.D., bag beside her ghostly
  hand. “And Nalla’s thriving. Man, vampire young progress so much faster than
  human babies. Cognitively, it’s like she’s nine months old.”
  
  “They’re doing great.” He kept slicing, moving his hand down and through, down
  and through. On the far side of the blade, the leaves sprang free in curly
  green ribbons like they were clapping at having been liberated.
  
  “A