What is the Novel "Sunshine" about?

Question

by this, i mean where is it set?

The names of places sound like they could exist in America, and she mentions about how before the Wars they used the 'Dollar', but converted after the War to 'Winks'.

I considered the thought that maybe it is set in the future in America (but they havent advanced as said in the book due to the Voodoo Wars), but then she mentioned that they "havent seen the pheonix is over a thousand years".

im confused :S

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Answer 1

You might call it an alternate America -- one where vampires and werebeings exist, magic is real, and there have been these awful Voodoo Wars that practically wrecked the country.  So it takes place here and now -- but not the here and now that we know!  

Answer 2

Read this copied from the internet

The story is set in an alternate universe, after a big war between regular human beings and the "Others"--mysterious creatures including vampires. Rae "Sunshine" Seddon, the pastry-making heroine of the novel, is abducted by a gang of vampires and confined in the ballroom of an abandoned mansion with Constantine, a vampire who has been shackled there by the other vampires to slowly die of hunger and exposure to sunlight. Rae uses her all-but-forgotten (and strong!) magical powers to effect an escape. She (and everyone else) is shocked that she survived the encounter with vampires, but she is more shocked that she chose to save Constantine as well (something she doesn't tell anyone else). Sunshine begins to embrace her magical ability, is coerced into working with the "Special Other Forces", wonders what kind of tentative partnership can exist between two individuals whose races are bitter enemies, and, finally, works with Constantine to overthrow their mutual enemy, a powerful vampire who runs the gang that entrapped them.