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Written from an atheist s perspective. the vampire for me was a perfect metaphor for the way i felt, like a lost soul roaming in the darkness without god. and i poured a lot of my despair and my unhappiness and my grief for my lost faith into those books. reporter: in 1998, she says she experienced a conversion. i knew there were probably things that the church taught that i would find very hard. but at the moment of that conversion, i was really convinced that it would all work out. reporter: for the past 12 years she has lived as a committed catholic. instead of writing about vampires she switched to writing about christ and angels. in fact, her new book about angels called of love and evil comes out this fall. however, she says even though she knew she might struggle with the church s stance on social issues, she wasn t prepared for how frustrated she would become by things like the priest sex ....