Author: C.D. Brown
Publisher: Gryphonwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Get Book Here
Book Description
All Sophia Fontanelle wanted was to be left alone. On the run from New Orleans and its vampire council, she heads to Los Angeles to start a new life. But when The Caballero, the ancient peacekeeper rumored to be the great Zorro himself, is murdered, Sophia finds herself caught up in a fight to clear her name. Threatened by a 1950’s era gangster turned vamp by the Caballero himself, can she survive in VAMP CITY? Urban fantasy meets detective noir in C.D. Brown’s memorable debut novel! Praise for Vamp City! “Vampire noir in LA, by way of New Orleans, with progressive creatures of the night trying to solve a twisted murder mystery. Sophia is a powerful lead fighting to clear her name in C D Brown’s compelling debut.” – Alan Baxter, author of Hidden City and the Alex Caine series.
Author: Pamela Palmer
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062107542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Get Book Here
Book Description
Only one woman can save vamp city . . . One of the few humans who managed to escape the deadly twilight world of Vamp City, Quinn Lennox vows never to return. But the vampires want her back, for only she has the power to renew the magic of their crumbling world and free the vampires trapped within. When the dangerous and all-too-seductive Arturo Mazza comes for her, Quinn knows she can never trust him after the betrayal she suffered at his hands. But with her beloved brother's fate hanging in the balance, and her own power beginning to emerge, she chooses to risk all on yet another perilous journey back to Vamp City. And though she tries to deny it, her heart begins to hold hope that even a ruthless vampire can learn the meaning of true love . . .
Author: Simon Bacon
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031362535
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135053375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Get Book Here
Book Description
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of vampires in contemporary popular literature and demonstrating how they engage with essential cultural preoccupations, anxieties, and desires. Drawing from cultural materialism, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender studies, and postmodern thought, Piatti-Farnell re-frames the concept of the vampire in relation to a distinctly twenty-first century brand of Gothic imagination, highlighting important aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural changes that have affected the literary genre in the post-2000 era. She places the contemporary literary vampire within the wider popular culture scope, also building critical connections with issues of fandom and readership. In reworking the formulaic elements of the vampiric tradition — and experimenting with genre-bending techniques — this book shows how authors such as J.R. Ward, Stephanie Meyers, Charlaine Harris, and Anne Rice have allowed vampires to be moulded into enigmatic figures who sustain a vivid conceptual debt to contemporary consumer and popular culture. This book highlights the changes — conceptual, political and aesthetic — that vampires have undergone in the past decade, simultaneously addressing how these changes in "vampire identity" impact on the definition of the Gothic as a whole.
Author: Amanda Carlson
Publisher: Amanda Carlson, Inc.
ISBN: 099039283X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Get Book Here
Book Description
Welcome to Vegas. Home of the Sin City Collectors. The job description is easy: Bring the offending supernatural in to the Boss and don’t ask any questions. * The characters in all 3 of these installments interact on the page to make for one fun novel! ACES WILD, Vol. 1 Nevada Hamilton has learned a few things since becoming a Sin City Collector, and staying away from vampires is one of them. After botching her first Collection, she hasn’t been assigned to another one since. But when she receives her next playing card, she’s in for a surprise. Not only is a vampire her next target, but they’ve paired her up to make sure she gets the job done right. Being a hellhound isn’t enough to protect Jake Troubadour from Nevada Hamilton, no matter how thick his skin is. Finding out he has to work with the beautiful dhampir, after not seeing her for three years, is a low blow—but Jake is a professional. He takes his Collections as seriously as he does running his bar. He’ll do whatever it takes to get the job done. ANTE UP, Vol. 2 Diesel Jones is a shifter with moon issues. His dream of becoming a Sin City Collector has lingered in the shadows because of his inability to control himself. But when Louie Fiore decides to test his merit, Diesel jumps at the chance. When he finds he has to come up against an incubus, painful issues from the past resurface and he only has one thing on his mind—kill. Sofia Cabrera is the new witch in town, and she’s more than anyone bargained for. She finds herself drawn to Diesel, the sexy shifter, the first moment she lays eyes on him. When she finds herself the target of an organization of incubi, Diesel comes to her aid unexpectedly and they end up fighting the threat together. ALL IN, Vol. 3 Ginger Elliot is a succubus on the run. She’s in danger of being Collected, but her first priority is to find her brother. Even though she operates the biggest spy network in the supernatural world, it may not be enough to free her from the crimes she’s been accused of committing. But keeping her deteriorating condition from the sexy shifter who’s accompanying her is getting trickier by the hour. Luke Jones is on a mission to save the succubus he’s fallen for—not only from her brother—but from herself. The two have been on the incubus’s trail for weeks and finally have him backed into a corner. Luke knows Ginger is in trouble, but he has no idea how to save her. What’s Collected in Vegas, stays in Vegas...
Author: Bailey Bradford
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 178651656X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Get Book Here
Book Description
Derrick Tovar thought posing for a calendar would be the most adventurous thing he'd ever do—boy, was he wrong! Derrick Tovar has always played it safe. He had a secure job, a retirement plan, five- and ten-year goals... When he agreed to pose in skimpy clothing for a charity calendar, he figured that was one daring, out-of-character thing for him to do. It wasn't that big a risk, really. Except it almost got him killed. He's having a little trouble dealing with that, but he soon meets a man who makes him want to dream big and take chances.
Author: Bailey Bradford
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1786515164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Get Book Here
Book Description
Don't discount the mystic powers in the world... Casey has spent most of his adult life building a successful business. His mother has been on him to settle down with a good man. Casey would, but he hasn't had time to look for one. On his fortieth birthday, he goes out with friends and gets drunk—and has one too many. When he wakes up in the morning, there's a sexy, strange man in his home and a new, kind of painful tattoo on Casey's chest. He doesn't remember what happened the night before, but it doesn't take him long to realize that the stranger, Ed, is someone he wants to get to know much better. Now, if the fates and stars and all that mystical stuff will align, Casey and Ed might have their Happily Ever After, with the help of a mysterious tattoo artist and a vanishing tattoo shop.
Author: Bailey Bradford
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1786516527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Get Book Here
Book Description
Will is certain there's truth to the phrase that no good deed goes unpunished. William Blunt thought posing for a charity calendar would be fun. Instead, it's kind of tedious and stressful, and his boyfriend begins to display some alarmingly jealous behavior. Once the shoot is over—again—he's ready to move on to other things, one of which is, eventually, a healthier relationship. Breaking up isn't hard to do, and Will vows to learn from his past dating disasters. What he doesn't count on is meeting a man whose smile turns his world upside down. Baz is gorgeous, but more than that, he's intriguing and funny, and he seems to be as interested in Will as Will is in him. But all is not smooth sailing, and a murder complicates the personal issues both men are already struggling with.
Author: Bailey Bradford
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1781840326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Get Book Here
Book Description
Snow leopard shifter Isaiah Trujillo isn't a doctor like his brother Tim, but he's a good guy and when he meets Bae Allen Warren, he knows he's found the one man to make his life complete.Snow leopard shifter Isaiah Trujillo wasn't the brightest guy. His brother was a doctor with more letters after his name than in it, and Isaiah was just a mechanic. But, he strived to be a good person, and that included accepting the offer to volunteer at a GLBTQ youth centre. He's nervous as hell, but Isaiah's determined to do what he can to help. Bae Allen Warren is a veterinarian with a mobile practice. It allows him more freedom than having an actual building he had to work out of. He had more baggage than any man should, thanks to his messed up shifter family. His lepe, or clan, was a source of constant stress and guilt. But the leader, his grandfather, makes demands on Bae he can't ever fulfil for moral and other reasons. When Bae and Isaiah meet, it's instant attraction. They know they're mates, but there's so many obstacles in their way, not the least of which are the stalkers who seem determined to kidnap Bae.
Author: Bailey Bradford
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1786516160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Get Book Here
Book Description
A run through the woods turned anything but typical when Levi found the one thing he never expected to find-his mate. After a week spent in family reunion hell, Levi Travis is more than ready for a little break. But who knew shifting into a snow leopard and loping around in the woods could turn into such a steamy event? When Levi encounters a cougar shifter in the woods, the attraction is so hot it threatens to shoot off sparks. Levi has fantasized about having a stronger man than him want him, and he's sure the cougar is just such a man. Which is why Levi lets himself get caught, and the intensity of their mating is only equaled by Levi's confusion when the man shifts back into a cougar then turns tail and runs. Lyndon Hines has been running for months. Hunted, taunted, he didn't know what else to do—until he met a man who made him realize that some things were worth fighting for. Two shifters, each a different breed, neither knowing much about their heritage, Levi and Lyndon come together and find the strength to take on the mad man who is out to end Lyndon's life.
