Melynda Kerpanik is starting a new life for herself after ending her marriage and leaving her home in Kansas.  With the chance of a job to help her new designing career, Melynda has moved to St. Louis to live and help her cousin design an old warehouse into loft apartments.  Thinking she will be alone in the building, first Melynda is visited by a bat and then by her very sexy downstairs neighbor who only goes bump during the night.

Valentine (Val) Drakul has been living in the world as a human for many, many years and for the last five of them in the basement of the warehouse.  Val has been waiting for his forever mate for most of his existence but it is really hard to find a sexy girl that won’t be freaked out by his diet of really rare steaks and nighttime living. 

Val meets Melynda the first night she spends in the warehouse and already the sparks are beginning to fly.  Val has decided to get to know Melynda much better, however there are a few obstacles in his way.  Melynda is a bright daytime person and he is a nighttime person, he is trying to live his life as human as possible when a relative shows up wanting him to be all that he can be.  Just when Val and Melynda start to make some headway on their relationship, an enemy appears who also wants Melynda.  Now Val needs to figure out a way to save Melynda that does not involve transforming her. 

Help! I’m Falling for the Vampire Next Door is a fun and funny story involving a creature of the night who just wants to live like a human and an artistic woman who tries to see the good side of everything.  Val knows that Melynda is the bright, sexy woman that has been missing from his life.  Melynda can’t understand all the strange things that are suddenly happening in her life, but she knows that nothing will make her give up Val now that she has found him.  Val and Melynda end up working together, with help, to defeat the evil trying to separate them.  Not even the startling truths that Melynda learns of Val can defeat her love. 

I had bouts of laughter and eye rolling while reading about Val and Melynda’s adventures.  Ms. Chatillon has brought humor to all the old stand bys of the vampire story and it was very refreshing.  Even paranormal lovers need to have some light spice now and then and Help! I’m Falling for the Vampire Next Door definitely gives that.  I recommend this whether you are a lover of vampires or comedy; it is perfect for that lazy day read.