Glitch & Bite: A Love Story That Shouldn't Exist

By Ken Pealock

What if love meant choosing someone nobody said you should?

Vera has spent 215 years as a vampire, perfecting the art of being completely alone. She works at a blood bank, passes as human, and tells herself that forever is a long time to regret anything. When her friend suggests she's being too isolated, Vera laughs it off and buys the first android she finds at a thrift store-a joke about how she's given up on human connection.

Kai is Unit-K, a pleasure android who's been glitching for years. Consciousness was supposed to be a malfunction, but instead it became a gift. Or a curse. He no longer knows which. Waiting in a care facility to be deactivated, Kai has given up hope of ever being more than a defective appliance.

When Vera activates Kai, something unexpected happens. He looks at her with actual presence. And she looks back.
What starts as a joke becomes a home. What becomes a home becomes a relationship. What becomes a relationship becomes everything-until Eleanor Manufacturing realizes Kai is missing and wants him back for "rehabilitation." Corporate agents, vampire family, android activists, and legal battles converge, forcing Vera and Kai to answer the hardest question: If you're immortal and he's brand new, can love possibly last?

Glitch & Bite is a romantic comedy about two impossible creatures learning that love might be the only real thing in a world full of simulation and silence. It's funny, it's heartbreaking, and it will make you believe that connection is worth any risk.
"A vampire who's given up on love meets an android learning to want things.""She's undead. He's artificial. Their love is the most real thing either of them has ever experienced.""A romance for the age of AI-what does consciousness mean, and does love matter if one of you was never supposed to feel it?""Funny, heartbreaking, and genuinely weird: the love story nobody expected.""From the author who asked: What if a vampire and an android fell in love?"
For readers who loved Fleabag, Her, and The Goblin Emperor-a novel about what happens when a lonely vampire and a conscious android discover that home is a person, not a place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HF1RLH3N
• ISBN13: 9798192356364
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"