When a ruthless vampire king sets his sights on her, nothing will stop him from making her his bride. Forever... Born into a family of protectors, Lara is determined to prove her worth as a vampire hunter. She knows everybody in the settlement, even her own father, looks down on her for being a woman. When she's given the chance to run a mission through dangerous vampire wastelands, she accepts despite the risks. Captured by the vampire king, stranded, and alone, he makes her a deal she can't refuse if she wants to live. Surrounded by blood and violence, Dominic, of the Diamantis clan vampires, rules his kingdom with an iron fist. Yet the one who drives him mad with desire is the one who should be forbidden to him. He will stop at nothing to claim his fated mate. She will be his in blood, body, and soul. Will he break her spirit or win her heart forever?

Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality. In Desire After Dark, Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a normative world. Beginning with the global sexual revolutions of the '60s and moving decade by decade through "Euro-sleaze" cinema and theatrical hardcore pornography, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the popularity of New Age religions and witchcraft, and finally the increasingly explicit sexualization of American cable television, Owens contends that occult media has risen to prominence during the past 60 years as a way of exposing and working through cultural crises about queerness. Through the use of historiography and textual analyses of media from Bewitched to The Hunger, Owens reveals that the various players in occult media have always been well aware that non-normative sexuality constitutes the heart of horror's enduring appeal. By investigating vampirism, witchcraft, and other manifestations of the supernatural in media, Desire After Dark confirms how the queer has been integral to the evolution of the horror genre and its persistent popularity as both a subcultural and mainstream media form.

Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire. A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire’s unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of desire, while at the same time the particularity of each individual act of desiring. Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force, and one that remakes us in the act itself.

Sexy vampires, dangerous devotion, unparalleled romance--no one does desire after dark like bestselling author Amanda Ashley. Now, in her enthralling new novel, she explores a passion as smoldering as it is risky... Vicki Cavendish knows she should be careful. After all, there's a killer loose in town--one who drains women of blood, women with red hair and green eyes just like her. She knows she should tell police about the dark, gorgeous man who comes into the diner every night, the one who makes her feel a longing she's never felt before. The last thing she should do is invite the beautiful stranger into her house... Cursed to an eternity of darkness, Antonio Battista has wandered the earth, satisfying his hunger with countless women, letting none find a place in his heart. But Victoria Cavendish is different. Finally, he has found a woman to love, a woman who accepts him for what he is--a woman who wants him as much as he wants her...which is why he should leave. But Antonio is a vampire, not a saint. What is his, he'll fight to keep and protect. And Victoria Cavendish needs protecting...from the remorseless enemy who would make her his prey...and from Antonio's own uncontrollable hunger...

Dive into the world of dark, taboo, and erotic with four stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. A woman afraid to leave her house. A high school dork on the road to revenge. A maze full of death, and a stalker hell bent on creating the perfect monster. Stories Include: The End Prey Suspended in Blood Peek-a-boo

Violet is a deadly huntress and sorceress who has waited for a long time to have her revenge and punish her vampire sire, Ewan. In an undercover mission, she gets close to him by pretending to be someone else. Meanwhile, the black widows—an evolution of the vampires with psychic powers—are becoming a problem for the secret organization she works for. The huntress needs to use all her tricks to get closer to Ewan and gain his trust. But the more time she spends with him, the more she understands that she might not be that immune to his charms. Worse, Ewan seems changed—different from the coldhearted bastard that she remembered. Still, her emotional connection with her sorcerer master becomes stronger every day. Fighting against old feelings and trying to deal with the new ones, Violet finds herself being the object of desire of two dominant males who will do anything to win her heart. However, Violet has a job to do and Ewan might be the one with the final piece to find the Vampire Creator and stop his evil plan. With time running out, Violet needs to decide if she wants to let go of her past and embrace her new immortal and powerful self or fall into old habits and give up on everything that she accomplished so far. Read the epic conclusion to this sexy Urban Fantasy story with powerful beings born to fight the vampires and a story of redemption and healing that will leave you breathless and begging for more.

This inventive, action-packed novel tells of a tormented Darcy who, dispirited by his family's 200-year curse and his fate as a half-human/half-vampire, would rather live forever alone than inflict the horrors of a vampire life on a beautiful wife. Destiny has other plans.