The Last Vampire follows the story of Sita. A vampire form the dawn of time blood thirsty and mean. Her origin is India 5,000 years ago she was a child in a small village and a horrible disease killed many of the villagers. A man comes to the village stating he can rid them of the disease if they allow him to perform a ceremony on a dead pregnant girl.
The ceremony involves invoking a demon named yakshini. Sita hides by some trees and watches the ceremony. The demon kills the man and goes into the body of the unborn baby. Sita’s father offers to let her kill the child but she refuses and names him Yaksha after the demon.
The child grows quickly and devolves a love for Sita. She instead marries a man named Rama. So they have a daughter. One night she wakes to a noise and goes out side to investigate. Yaksha attacks her and tells her to leave her home and follow him or he will kill her family. She goes and he turns her into a Vampire.
Some of the villagers beg Krishna a incarnation of a deity to stop them. He agrees and sends an army killing almost all the vampires except Yakasha and Sita. Krishna then tells Sita if she never makes another vampire she will be in his grace. He then tells (unknown to Sita ) Yakasha if he kills all the other vampires then he will have his grace.
Yakasha tracks down and kills the other vampires avoiding Sita. Sita hears he was killed by a mob in the middle ages and goes on with her life. Living in Egypt working her way east. Until she has a nice house in the present day United States.
She discovers some one has hired a privet detective to find her. When she learns some of what the detective knows she wounds him. She tries to get into his files to see what else he knows but it’s protected by a pass word. She snatches a picture of the detective’s son Ray from his desk and as he lay dieing ask him about the boy. It doesn’t take long to find the boy figuring he knows the code to his father’s computer she befriends him. He reminds her of the husband she left behind 5,000 years ago.
He helps her get in to his fathers files and she discovers a man named Slim is after her. She sets up a place to meet and they kidnap her. She then kills Slim and discovers he’s working for Yakasha. Surprised he’s still alive she sets up a plan to kill him but it back fires when he mortally wounds Ray. Sita heals him by making him a vampire.
She tries to kill Yakasha again this time putting explosives under all their chairs. Figuring Yakasha would want them to die together. She puts a kind of metal under her and Ray’s chair to throw them out of the house. The bombs about to go off when Yakasha tells them to run and that Krishna wouldn’t want him to kill her. The book ends with Sita wounded a tree branch piercing her heart.
