That's what xcess baggage India's first vampire novel is all about

They say love is blind. But all said and done, would you fall in love with a 'handsome creep' who is out to kill you? Even if it is in human form, and looks like 'Jessica Simpson's ex-boyfriend'? And even if you are nutter enough to keep talking to a 'voice' inside your head. But in this saga of mush, titled Xcess Baggage, being billed as India's first vampire novel, this is exactly what happens.

So what's the story?
Xcess Baggage is the story of a loner, an Indian in the US, Meghna Chandra, who leads an almost obscure existence with no looks or money to write home about. She prefers watching horror flicks on Christmas eve rather than celebrating with friends (which she doesn't have anyway).
Meghna is one girl anyone can trample over, which perhaps explains to some extent why she hopelessly falls in love with the stranger (named Byron, old world style), who she first thinks is a mugger but later finds out as a vampire out to pursue her on a mission.
"She is fighting a lot of demons of her own. On the outside she tries to be tough but when Byron comes close, she feels incapacitated. Just because we are privy to her feelings we think she is madly in love with him," explains Varsha Dixit, the author. Hmmm ufffdpoint taken. But not very convincingly.