Bitten at Midnight
The stranger at the jazz bar burned cold – and his bite promised an eternity she never asked for. A 3,500-word vampire romance set in New Orleans. 18+.
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The Bookbinder’s Immortal Client
A Bath bookbinder takes on a client who has been in her family’s ledger since 1952, and finds her own name in the book he lives by.
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The Surgeon and the Nightwalker
The patient arrived in the trauma bay at 3:47 a.m. on a Sunday, which was peak hour for the kind of injuries that Dr. Saoirse Flynn had spent seven years learning to repair: the knife wounds, the falls, the car accidents, the desperate Saturday-night damage that the city inflicted on its inhabitants and then delivered,…
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The Vampire’s Beekeeper
A former City litigator hives a swarm of black bees that fly by night. The neighbour who claims them lives on their honey, and the law says they are hers.
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Crimson Patronage
The gallery opening was by invitation only, which in the art world of contemporary London meant that approximately four hundred people had been invited, of whom three hundred had come for the free champagne, ninety-seven had come to be seen, and exactly three had come for the art. Mira Castellano was one of the three….
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Nocturne for a Dying Star
The concert hall was empty when Ailsa Drummond arrived for the evening rehearsal, which was unusual. The Lyceum Chamber Orchestra did not typically abandon its Tuesday rehearsals, even when the weather turned foul, even when the heating failed, even when the second violins contracted a collective stomach ailment from the sushi restaurant they insisted on…
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The Siren’s Last Song
A solitary lighthouse keeper hears singing from the rocks below his tower. When he climbs down, he finds the last siren — a luminescent woman whose voice is failing and whose existence is measured in weeks. The only cure is a true harmonic: another voice singing from the heart. The problem is, Callum cannot sing.
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The Demon’s Bargain
Academy student Thea makes a chalk error in her summoning circle and accidentally calls forth a Duke of Hell instead of a minor imp. The ancient demon offers a bargain: seven days of mortal experience in exchange for perfect practicum marks. But when an immortal being discovers coffee, rain, and Barber’s Adagio, going back to Hell becomes unthinkable.
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Bound by the Blood Moon
On her thirtieth birthday, Vera’s family curse activates: a blood bond tethering her soul to a stranger’s. She has three blood moons to find them or die. The bond leads her to Prague, to a supernatural researcher who has been studying curses like hers from a safe academic distance — and who is now, to his scholarly horror, living inside one.
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