Issala endured years of torture as Lady Catherine's Pet. She thought she was free until the sadistic vampire returned and brutally murdered Issala's lover. Now she spends every waking moment hunting vampires in the hopes that she can find the one who so ruthlessly destroyed her life. Lorelei Renfield's family has been serving vampires for centuries. Only a few nights before her dedication ceremony to their family's cruel master, she runs from home--and into Issala's path. The tall, dark-eyed stranger promises to protect her, but Lorelei wants more than a protector, she wants true love. The...

Devany Miller is back to kick ass and take names ... But first she has to figure out how to use the magic inside her without the help of the witch Arsinua. Evil isn't waiting for her to figure it out, either. Outlaw witches kill her ex-husband. The geis laid to hide the Skriven souls from her spawn is crumbling and the only way to fix it is make a pact with the murderous fleshcrawler queen. Then there's the matter of Tytan, the only one of her spawn who wants to help her renew the geis and hide the souls. Or does he? He's helped her in the past but if he does find his soul he can ascend and...

Crazy, wild, and fantastical, these short stories are sure to give you something to shiver over and think about on those late nights. A widower wakes up to see the Gown She Was Buried In laid out beside him on his bed. There's a sound down A Dark Hallway, and she doesn't want to find out what it is. A man's crazy wife pays him a visit and teaches him there's nothing like A Woman's Touch. A woman is pursued to the edge by a creature that wants her soul and she learns to Fly. An overblown windbag finds out his wife is One Smart Penny.