An unapologetic book-huffer and devourer-of-stories, Vera Valentine has carried on a torrid love affair with the written word for nearly all of her 41 years. Grown in the diner-laden wilds of the New Jersey Pine Barrens and transplanted to North Carolina, she lives with her husband, eight cats, and two dogs, most of whom are house trained. An avid fan of the Paranormal Why Choose / Polyam genre, she tossed her author hat into the ring in September of 2021 and never looked back.
A self-professed chaotic capybara, Vera can usually be found spending too much time on social media, chilling with fellow author friends, or scribbling down plot bunny ideas in her trusty paper sidekick, the Bad Idea Book™.
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Beached and Breached
Pairing: M/M/NBi (non-binary)
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Monster Polyam / Why Choose / 18+
Content: When the Fortunate Winds finds itself on the rough end of ironic hurricane gusts, a freak accident results in an intriguing turn of fate. Now sentient and entwined with a mythical creature, the former shrimp boat explores its sexuality with the unwitting help of an intrepid, lust-dazed first responder.
This is an explicit story is intended for readers 18+ only, and contains mature themes, including significant magical dub-con/coercion, oral sex, anal penetration by objects (there’s a flared base, I’m not a monster), choking, gagging, unprotected sex, magical spit-as-lube, mockery/degradation, slight BDSM dynamics, hair-grasping, allusions to murder by drowning, a police officer MC, and…well, I don’t really know what a boat fucking someone would be. But, yanno, that’s in here. Obviously. We both know it’s why you’re here.
As always, if I left anything out, please let me know! I’m here to give you the best stories I can, and that means properly informing my beloved readers. Just a reminder - please do not share, spread, or upload this story anywhere else. Thanks!
Finally, while no combination of partners, sexualities, or gender identities ever needs a warning, consider this your official notice that this story is an M/M/NBi (non-binary) menage. Hope you enjoy it. ;)
What's New? - 4/7/23
News:
Carnal Cryptids 3: Deep South has unfortunately been delayed. I'm not going to put up a new preorder until I have more of the story on page, but I promise it's still coming - I love Jaz already and I can't wait to share her story. Thank you all so much for your kindness and support!
My merch and signed book story is NOW OPEN at ValentineVerse.Shop - I have a bunch of neat stickers in there, as well as a limited edition Squeak box that I'm restocking as fast as humanly possible. Ya'll are voracious! <3
New Releases:
Monsters in Love 3: Lost in the Forest is NOW LIVE! This third installment of the wildly-popular Monsters in Love series is packed with 13 awesome monster romance writers, including yours truly! My story, A Well-Kept Secret, is an MF romance between a serpentine dragon-djinn and the "unlucky" thief that falls down his well and into his amorous clutches.
Monsters in Love: Wicked Tales and Monstrous Ever Afters is NOW LIVE! This HUGE charity anthology features 29 of your favorite monster-loving authors, all coming together for a great cause: a no-kill animal shelter organization. My story, Welcome Inn (MF) delves into a strange, sinister war between traditional house spirits, all coming to a head at an unassuming B&B in the Pacific Northwest.
Squeak is now available as an audiobook, narrated by the amazing Michelle Price - grab it on Amazon, Audible, Storytel, Kobo, Libro.fm, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Scribd, and Chirp.
Both Plucked and Squeak are also now available as physical paperbacks, and (when I can keep em in stock!) as signed editions in my freshly-minted online store, ValentineVerse.shop :)
Coming Soon:
Squeal (The Squeakquel), the follow-up to Squeak, is hitting Kindles on May 1st - click to preorder!
I have 2 secret anthology projects in the works (info coming as soon as they let me!) I'm happy to say that for one of the secret projects, my bestie J.L. Logosz and I are returning to the world of Planet Oster: Fertility Fusion to spend some quality time with the infamous denizens of the Scrum.
I am pumped to announce I'm once again joining some talented author pals in Monsters in Love 4: Lost in the Deeps, coming September 26th, 2023. Fall's gonna be busy this year! ;)
Older News:
Clio Evans and I are happy to announce that Erotic Excavations, our kinky, cozy, MMF dino shifter novella under the joint pen name Pamela Bones, is NOW LIVE! This story has shaped up to be compelling, hilarious, and unnecessarily hot.
Plucked, my MF paranormal romance short that appeared in the now-out-of-print Monsters in Love 2: Lost in the Dark anthology, is now available as a standalone, in both eBook and paperback format. As promised, I'm expanding the death lore-centric Moriverse world that started with this story, and releasing my first full length novel in the same setting, Styx and Stones, later on this year - click to preorder it!
Sap and Spile, originally published as Sap, Snow, and Spile from the now out-of-print Into the Woods Anthology, is now available as a standalone novella. This is the original, uncut story from the anthology, though I haven't ruled out writing more in the world in the future. (Shoutout to my awesome friend and fellow author Clio Evans for her assist on the cover & format!)
Beached and Breached, a free M/M/NBi short story, is now available to all my newsletter subscribers! Inspired by an oddly-emphatic tweet from the Myrtle Beach Police Department about a beached ship, it's off the wall (even for me) and involves a boat having sex with someone.
Appearances:
The Romancing NOLA signing event slated for July 2023 has apparently been CANCELLED - sorry everyone! More info here.
I'm still going to two signing events in 2023 (so far)! You can find me at:
Getting Witchy with It (Salem, MA on 9/16-9/17/23) - Note I'll only be an attendee here, but I'm happy to sign your book(s)!
Committed at the Stanley Hotel (Estes Park, CO on 11/11/23)
I'll also tentatively be going to Dreaming Dirty in Maryland on May 4th, 2024
More info to come as the dates approach!
Novels / Novellas
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Carnal Cryptids: East Coast
Pairing: MMMF
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Monster Polyam / Why Choose / 18+
Content: Explicit content / potential triggers, including but not limited to: violence, gun violence, dub-con, trauma, kidnapping, bondage, magical coercion, superficial wounds, unusual monster anatomy, BDSM / power exchange, primal pursuit, praise / punishment, suicidal ideation, exhibitionism, group sex, and more.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: Desiderata needed a drink. After a long day of dodging darts and heckling tourists from her balloon game booth on the Wildwood boardwalk, she just wanted to forget her looming housing angst for an hour. When heavy flirtation and a cocktail from a suave substitute bartender shakes up her evening, things are looking up.
Until, of course, she catches him making out with a hot college guy not five minutes later.
In an attempt to forget the sinfully sexy stranger from the night before, Desi agrees to a dinner date with the eyeful of tall, dark and handsome that shows up at her job the next day. There’s just one little catch: he’s apparently already dating the two guys from the bar.
For JD, a shift behind a Jersey shore dive bar was always the same: predictable, boring, a little bit sticky. So what was it about this gorgeous brunette that instantly had him on the rocks? One look at her brought out the beast in him - and a desperate hope that she might be what he and Penn need to save Will for good. After over a century of struggle, they were due for a win - and someone who really believed in them.
One night.
That’s all they’ll need to get Desi to agree to.
But it’s going to be one hell of a night.
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Regret and Redemption: A Carnal Cryptids Short
Pairing: MF
Standalone: No / Series Supplement (HFN)
Style: Monster Romance / No Explicit Sexual Scenes
Content: This novella offers additional background / alternate POVs for the storyline between Jess and Dov. It does NOT contain explicit "spice," though adult language and sexual attraction are present.
Contains explicit content including but not limited to: violence, gun violence, discussion of PTSD and trauma, kidnapping, bondage, and magical murder.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: When the door to her rental place comes crashing in, Jess is ready to fight back and protect her best friend Desi’s whereabouts at any cost. Betrayed by her own phone, she’s violently pulled into a world full of monsters and mayhem, forced to fight back with the sharpest weapon she has. When one of her attackers emerges as an unexpected ally, Jess is forced to confront not only the existence of mythical Concepts, but some decidedly human emotions too.
Dov has existed for years under the thumb of a man he both despises and depends on, forced to act against his own interests to stay alive. When he’s pushed to cross a line, he finds something unexpected on the other side a black-haired beauty with an attitude that could take out a tank. Now it’s up to him to make the break he’s been longing for, and hopefully some amends while he’s at it.
Carnal Cryptids: Regret and Redemption is a short / alternate POV tale intended to be read between Carnal Cryptids: East Coast and Carnal Cryptids 2: Southeast.
This story primarily focuses on enhancing events that have already occurred in Carnal Cryptids: East Coast, and offers additional insight and backstory that will lead into Carnal Cryptids 2: Southeast. While adult language is used and attraction is definitely present, this tale is just for a bit of backstory and thus does not contain spice (e.g. there’s no kissing, no beast-with-two-backs, etc.) - sorry! There will be LOTS in Carnal Cryptids 2, though, so try not to worry too much.
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Carnal Cryptids 2: Southeast
Pairing: MMMF
Standalone: No / Series Continuation (HFN)
Style: Monster Polyam / Why Choose / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content including but not limited to: violence, gun violence, dub-con, discussion of PTSD and trauma, bigotry, suicidal ideation, kidnapping, bondage, magical coercion, superficial wounds, unusual monster anatomy (dual phalluses, genital pocket, hooves, horns, tentacles), BDSM and power exchange, primal pursuit, praise / punishment, exhibitionism, group sex, and more.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: With another summer on the Jersey shore coming to a close, Jess was more than ready to hang up her water park vest until next year. Still recovering from the shock of being kidnapped and nearly killed, she's barely had time to process the fact that monsters are real.
The impulsive offer to let her repentant abductor-turned-protector crash on her couch is going better than anticipated. So well, in fact, that inviting him along on her annual road trip is a surprisingly easy choice. But when old acquaintances, unresolved desires, and ancient impulses enter the mix, their straight shot down I-95 is suddenly full of dangerous curves.
A threat from the past in their rearview mirror.
Raw hunger, hot and heavy as a swamp.
Sharp, vicious smiles, sinuous as a river.
1400 miles to go.
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Stowaway and Silent Song
Pairing: MMF (Polyam-Building Series)
Standalone: No (HFN)
Style: Fantasy Polyam / Why Choose / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content / potential triggers, including but not limited to: BDSM / Power Exchange, General Violence, Loss of Virginity (Male), Established Disability of a Main Character (Mute), Alcohol, Cursing, Knives, Murder, Drowning, Allusions to Past Assault, and Group Sex.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: A selkie, a siren, and a sea captain walk into a tavern...
After building a reputation for herself as one of the best cargo-runners in the Winding Way, Captain Miranda Cardonna finally feels at home on the deck of her own ship, the Tempest Tossed. But when a tempting stowaway with one hell of a secret ends up in her cabin, she's plunged headfirst into a world of shifters, waveborns, and prophecy that pulls her in like the tides.
As selkies, sirens, and assassins seep into her once-mortal life, can Miranda find her footing in a new world where magic, love, and lust flow freely?
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Pairing: MMF (Polyam-Building Series)
Standalone: Yes (HFN)
Style: Paranormal Menage / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content / potential triggers, including but not limited to: OV designations and omegaverse-specific concepts like knotting, heats, ruts, nests, mate bites, bondings, and more. There is a brief (non-main-character) death at the very end. There is discussion of past violence and sexual compulsion/slavery, but it’s all occurred by the time the story starts. MM relationships do not need a warning, but consider this your heads up that the MCs are together, as they often are in my books - this story is polyamorous / polyam. If I’ve missed mentioning any content considerations you feel should be in this list, please let me know! The safety and comfort of my readers always takes precedence.
Blurb: A dedicated art student at her local community college, Poppy practically lives inside her sketchbook. Drawn to the distracted crowds of the local zoo, her planned day of anonymous figure-sketching is interrupted by the charming Sebastian - and his brooding, borderline-rude friend Keane. Little does she know the two have a twisted secret that defies imagination - and the pressure on both of them is increasing by the day. As an intricate plan takes shape to secure their freedom, the twists and turns they face - and a pair of very intriguing knots - might just unwittingly tie Poppy to both of them, forever.
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Squeal: The Squeakquel
Pairing: MMMF (Polyam-Building Series)
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Paranormal Menage / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content / potential triggers, including but not limited to: Clowns, OV designations and omegaverse-specific concepts like knotting, heats, ruts, nests, mate bites, bondings, and more. MM relationships do not need a warning, but consider this your heads up that the MCs are together, as they often are in my books - this story is polyamorous / polyam. If I’ve missed mentioning any content considerations you feel should be in this list, please let me know! The safety and comfort of my readers always takes precedence.
Blurb: (Coming Soon!)
Info Coming Soon!
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Hayseed
Pairing: MF
Standalone: Yes
Style: Paranormal Monster Romance / 18+
Content: This is an explicit story is intended for readers 18+ only, and contains mature themes, including a man hitting a woman (open hand), a woman hitting a man (closed fist), drinking, drunken behavior, slut-shaming, threats of violence, gagging (of the be-quiet variety), bondage, corn-based penetration (see how classy I am? I’m not putting a corn shucking joke here and I TOTALLY could), pumpkin fucking, cuckolding, and someone getting REALLY into agriculture if you know what I mean.
As always, if I left anything out, please let me know! I’m here to give you the best stories I can, and that means properly informing my beloved readers. Just a reminder - please do not share, spread, or upload this story anywhere else. Thanks!
Blurb:
What's full of ears and always listening?
The Harvest Festival has come to Kern Creek again, and farm girl Maisie is excited to take in the sights, sample her favorite fall treats, and enjoy the evening. But when her out-of-control boyfriend Daniel crosses a line in a drunken rage, she flees into the dark of the cornfield to save herself. Exhausted, scared, and somehow lost in the very fields she grew up exploring, the full moon reveals an unexpected addition to the stalks: a scarecrow she's never seen before.
No mere decoration, old druidic magic has given the strange straw man - Corbin - a sentry's reprieve on equinox night. The dark bargain he offers in turn is as intoxicating as Old Man Walker's cider and twice as sweet - but will Maisie dare accept it?
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Sap and Spile
Pairing: MMF
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Paranormal Menage / 18+
Content: There are references to marital cheating (previous, not perpetrated by the main characters), marital estrangement, homicide, divorce, a fatal car accident, death, ingestion of fun bodily fluids (both while aware and while unaware), praise, and group activities.The two main male characters have a prior loving, established relationship with one another. If you have any questions or concerns about story content, please feel free to reach out to the author on social media!
Blurb: In the unfamiliar forests of Vermont, Mila finds herself out of her comfort zone in more ways than one. While cleaning up the mess her estranged husband left behind, a late spring snow storm threatens her life. Her unlikely rescuers aren’t just living in the woods, however: they’re an intrinsic part of them. Old bonds, new debts, and ancient magic flow like snowmelt in this short, steamy tale of love and lust among the trees.
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Plucked
Pairing: MF
Standalone: Yes (HFN)
Style: Paranormal Romance / 18+
Content: Plucked opens at the funeral of the main character’s sibling (passed on from an unnamed terminal disease.) Death, end-of-life care, and grief / mourning are discussed throughout. This story incorporates bedroom proclivities that rhyme with "ink" including praise and percussive (flogging) play. This story also contains attempted SA, murder - both previously alluded as well as on-page - unsanctioned corpse disposal, choking, implied servitude, implied financial fraud, and general skeeviness from a bad guy. As always, if you have any questions or concerns about story content, you’re more than welcome to contact the author on social media for clarification.
Blurb: Struggling with the loss of a loved one, devastated Cara Pierce is determined to move on and piece her life back together. When finances force her to reluctantly barter employment to fulfill her sister's last wishes, Cara soon discovers she's not the only one being compelled to work under suspicious circumstances. Can the strong, silent cemetery landscaper help her grief bloom into something more?
Plucked is an MF paranormal romance short story that unfolds between Jax, a grief demon (luctus) and Cara Pierce, a grieving human woman who has just lost her sister. This story is the first step into the Moriverse, a new series full of death-centric myths, creatures, and plots, continuing with an upcoming 'Why Choose' novel, Styx and Stones, in late 2023.
This story originally appeared in the (now out of print / unavailable) Monsters in Love: Volume 2 Lost in the Dark monster romance anthology, published in 2022.
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Styx and Stones
Pairing: (TBD / Why Choose / Will Contain MM)
Standalone: (TBD)
Style: Paranormal Polyam / Why Choose / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content / potential triggers TBD. MM relationships do not need a warning, but consider this your heads up that the MCs are together, as they often are in my books - this story is polyamorous / polyam. If I’ve missed mentioning any content considerations you feel should be in this list, please let me know! The safety and comfort of my readers always takes precedence.
Blurb: Souls flow down the Styx. Reapers gather. Psychopomps soothe. Hounds protect. It all runs smoothly until it doesn't.
When Thea's partner Arshe inexplicably abandons her mid-escort, the blue-haired reaper finds herself lost in more ways than one. After a series of unexpected allies crash - in some cases, literally - into her world, she's going to need all of them to find her friend and figure out why 'pomps keep vanishing from the Under.
A mystery? That she can handle.
But the growing heat and tension with these otherworldly men?
It might just be the end of her.
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Maws and Claws Motorcycle Club
Pairing: (TBD)
Standalone: (TBD)
Style: Paranormal Polyam / Why Choose / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content / potential triggers TBD. MM relationships do not need a warning, but consider this your heads up that the MCs are together, as they often are in my books - this story is polyamorous / polyam. If I’ve missed mentioning any content considerations you feel should be in this list, please let me know! The safety and comfort of my readers always takes precedence.
Blurb: When a ragtag crew of monsters need to step out of the shadows and blend into the city, it’s a feat far easier said than done. When smoothing out their rough edges to assimilate proves to be a challenge, a chance episode of a rough-and-tumble motorcycle club television show offers the group some unexpected inspiration. There’s a hitch, though: none of them know anything about motorcycles. At all.
Meet the Maws and Claws Motorcycle Club - a pack of monstrous misfits that don’t just have skeletons in their closets, but magical pelts, soul contracts, and hellfire chains too. They’re here to kick some ass, carve out their territory, and go full throttle on their mission - just as soon as they figure out what a throttle is.
Co-Writes
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Back for Seconds: A Reverse Harem Feast
Pairing: MMFMM
Standalone: Yes (HFN)
Style: Paranormal Reverse Harem / 18+
Content: Back for Seconds: A Reverse Harem Feast is a 8,959 word stimulating short story about the power of leftovers and bringing together strangers for some close and -extremely- personal fun. This tale is written for adults, and intended for 18+ audiences only. It involves explicit group activity, mild mm scenes, and consensual humiliation of a side dish that, let’s all be honest here, kind of deserves it.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: When your family leaves you to clean up after a busy holiday dinner, you decide to nip future It’s-my-turn squabbles in the bud by quietly breaking the wishbone yourself. When a private joke brings your desires to life, the kitchen gets a lot hotter - Trent, Sam, Carter, Pierce and….Gregg, you guess...are the dirty dishes here to satisfy needs that go well beyond that pile of -actual- dirty dishes in the sink.
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Regifted: Ganged by the Ghosts of Christmas
Pairing: MFMMM
Standalone: Yes (HFN)
Style: Paranormal Reverse Harem / 18+
Content: Regifted: Ganged by the Ghosts of Christmas is a 11,355 word stimulating short story about being filled with holiday spirit(s) and learning how to embrace the act of giving. This tale is written for adults, and intended for 18+ audiences only. It involves explicit group activity, unprotected “interactions” with ghosts and their subsequent glowing ectojism, bondage, love taps to the face, the ol’ hide-the-chain trick, and consensual humiliation of the female main character, including some degrading terms that sensitive readers may find offensive.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: This filthy, gender-bent twist on a Christmas Carol follows businesswoman Ellie Nadir and four ghostly guests - Jake, Anon, Yore, and Exor - as she learns how rewarding giving can be. She’ll be absolutely filled with…joy…by the time they’re done helping her embrace the true meaning of Christmas.
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Ruby & the V-Day Vanpires
Pairing: MMMF
Standalone: Yes (HFN)
Style: Paranormal Reverse Harem / 18+
Content: Ruby and the V-Day Vanpires is a 9,619 word stimulating short story about the importance of cleaning up public parks, practicing safe archery, and that age - and getting absolutely RAILED in the back of a van by three bi vampires - is only a state of mind. This tale is written for adults, and intended for 18+ audiences only. It involves explicit group activity, unprotected “interactions” with said undead suitors and their ahem nocturnal emissions, slight kidnapping, the ol’ fangy kiss to access liquid vampire chow, being impaled (the fun way, with 2 peens in 1 V), being impaled (the NOT fun way - like, with an arrow), sex pollen/poison (aka have to the deed to survive), as well as brief mentions of Homeowner’s Associations (HOAs), and geocaching.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: They’re magical monster-hunting vampires living in a van, she’s a fed-up middle-aged divorcee attempting to geocache her Valentine’s Day into oblivion. Perfect. Now the question is: can Quintain, Fletcher, and Marcus convince Ruby that the best way to resurrect her love life is with a few guys that are also back from the dead?
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Planet Oster: Fertility Fusion
Pairing: MMMF
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Alien / OV / Why Choose / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content including but not limited to: group activity, colorful (and frequent) explosions of "egg dye," ovipositor action, knots, designations of the verse-of-omega variety, discussions of fertility, pregnancy, birth, brief mentions of stillbirth/infant loss (not directly affecting characters), allusions to sex work, allusions to drugs, vaping, pain kinks, praise kinks, kidnapping, gross vending area snacks, graphic violence, space gun violence, extensive property damage, unethical hacking, stealing, unaliving of baddies, awakening of furry tendencies you might have been previously unaware of, alien anatomy, mating bites. And finally, while neither sweet bunnyboys still carrying their V-cards for certain acts or MM interaction needs a "warning," consider this a notice this lovely stuff is in here too.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: When broma pod smuggler Ch'ik Wazo finds herself - literally - down and out on an unfamiliar planet in the Rahnbo system. she's forced to admit she's in one hell of a tight spot. Just as she's preparing for a long, boring, and credit-less wait through the harvest season, an unlikely trio of long-eared aliens makes her an irresistible offer. Zul, Roz, and Jau promise they'll help her save her cargo if she'll agree to carry theirs. But with hidden dangers ready to turn a not-so-simple business arrangement into an all-out space war, it will only take one wrong move for this strange partnership to go supernova.
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Sacrificed to the Freedom Dragons
Pairing: MMMF
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Fantasy Why Choose / 18+
Content: Contains explicit content including but not limited to: group “activity” with multiple partners, solo play, blood, chain bondage, voyeurism, kidnapping, mortal peril, non-human anatomy (of the double P variety), patriarchy, recreational 'sweetleaf' use, communism, combustible secretions of joy, pet play, primal chase, foot stuff, minor injuries, magical murder, hoarding, mild body horror, age gap, ‘wax’ play, rimming, mpreg (brief appearance, non-main characters) unapologetic food waste, compelled spontaneous combustion, brief mention of lewd drawings, glassblowing. While adult interactions between male partners do not need a warning, consider this a heads-up that these interactions, both explicit and otherwise, play a large, happy role in this story.
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: The Free Isle of Rouset has a dragon problem, and Magemaster Doaldin has long preached salvation through one simple, terrible solution: sacrificing women to the ravenous beasts. When Riva is torn from her quiet life of candlemaking and thrust into the infamous scarlet dress as an offering, she’s determined to break the cycle once and for all.
But when her uncertain inner flame meets its match, the heat she endures has nothing to do with the fire that courses from leviathan jaws. Can Riva stoke the embers within and reduce the Magemaster to ashes? With the unexpectedly sensual help of her new allies, she may just find freedom - for her homeland and her inhibitions.
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The Stockings Were Hung: A Why Choose Hearth Warming Story
Pairing: MMMF
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Paranormal Why Choose / 18+
Content: The Stockings Were Hung: A Why Choose Hearth Warming Story is a short, sweet, and spicy novella that will ensure you'll never look at classic Christmas poems quite the same way. Content considerations for this story include: Stockings stuffing one another as well as the main character, Abusive relationship (spousal - not between main pairings), Allusions to cheating (again, spousal - not between main pairings), magical imprisonment, cuckoldry of the sort where someone really doesn't get a say about it, magical irrealism, bondage, projectile lamp hucking. This MMMF story is polyamorous / polyam. If we’ve missed mentioning any content considerations you feel should be in this list, please let us know! The safety and comfort of our readers always takes precedence.
Blurb: When her controlling, unfaithful husband bans Xmas cheer for another year, it's beginning to look like Joy will need a Christmas miracle to rekindle her holiday spirit. When an unexpectedly magical gift promises to deck the holiday heck out of her halls, suddenly a little seasonal celebration sounds like just the thing to warm up a snowy Christmas Eve. But just as things are getting toasty, the festivities are interrupted with an chilly blast of reality.
Can Joy's new yuletide companions prove they're orna-meant to be together and shake things up for good?
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(The version of Sacrificed to the Freedom Dragons that is currently on Amazon is missing both the Content Warnings and Epilogue - sorry about that! I'll be keeping this up on my site here until the servers update!)
***EPILOGUE - CONTAINS SPOILERS!***
It brought Riva no small amount of amusement to see Ellis, the largest of the trio and arguably the most brave, struggling not to look absolutely terrified at the hives. The hulking blue dragon man gave them a level of side-eye that would have made Pamela proud, but thankfully Rev and Knox were less suspicious of the faintly-humming boxes back beside Riva’s cottage on Rouset.
Riva herself, stripes of golden scales and all, got almost as many gawking onlookers as her dragon companions as they moved through town. Because Riva had abruptly cleansed the island’s gene pool with the assistance of the Grimoire of Anti-Gravity - and, of course, killed a startling number of people by opening a book - most people were smart enough to show her respect, save for the gawking. The one tavern drunk that didn’t get the memo got his eyebrows singed off by Rev - a small price to pay for abject stupidity in the face of dragons, honestly.
While Jasper had been reluctant to surrender Snow-in-Summer back to Riva (the fluffy feline traitor also seemed similarly attached), the consolation prize was too tempting for a young boy to pass up. With a fresh coat of paint and a new launching point upwind of the keep’s remains, the sacrifice ship had been transformed into the Rouset ferry service. It even boasted a brand new ship’s captain, seeing as the last had been lost to a well-deserved run-in with Riva-assisted gravity. Riva packed up her belongings and gifted her cottage to a wonderfully sassy young woman that would have almost surely been the next sacrifice. Once the secured hives and trunks had been carefully loaded onto the new ferry, Riva grabbed a seat near the front of the bow, Snow in her lap and Rev, Ellis, and Knox following overhead. Little Jasper, grinning ear-to-ear, got to act as the special assistant captain for the Liberation’s maiden voyage, and waved his arm tired at his proud family back on shore.
Once back on the dragons’ isle - unimaginatively called precisely that, her flight informed her - Rev had helped her relocate the hives to the flower-filled fields above the cliffs, just beside Rowe’s resting place. Once they were in place, all four of them had spent a quiet moment honoring the first sacrifice. Knox even built a bench beside the hives for Riva, which she’d enjoy on sunny afternoons, talking softly to Rowe’s memory about all the positive changes on the Free Isle.
Snow, delighted to have virtually endless places to sun herself, was absolutely spoiled rotten by Rev and Knox. The two took great delight in crafting exquisite cat toys of tiny blown-glass bubbles and tinkling golden coins, competing to see who could make her chase the noisy cluster of baubles the longest. While neither Snow or the ladies attacked one another, the alliance was an uneasy one, mostly centered around mealtime. Snow seemed to innately understand the scrambled eggs she enjoyed came from the flock, and the flock seemed to understand Snow was responsible for chasing off the persistent mice that tried to take up residence in the rock-nests. While Ellis was a little hesitant around the “small, delicate little creature,” he proved to be a quick study in the belly scritches Snow gleefully demanded of him. Pamela was often visibly jealous.
While Riva’s wings hadn’t manifested yet - the men told her it was a very slow, intricate process for Dragonlets - she was more than comfortable traveling by net, at this point. Ellis, Rev, and Knox all accompanied her on the next visit to the port city of Mapleton, which news of Rouset had already reached, thanks to the Liberation’s expanded ferry service. Daisy had, in the interim, started a Rousetian sweetleaf import business as a side-gig. She was happily working with Maribel - after Riva had made some introductions - to make edibles that sold briskly at market.
Phy had gone into labor a bit sooner than anticipated, human-hybrid children still being something of a gestational mystery for aquatic shifters. Thankfully, he and Maribel still welcomed a very hale and hearty little boy with his father’s fins and his mother’s penchant for mischief. When they’d asked Riva and her flight to be little Codu’s aunt and uncles, there was a great deal of happy crying, some of which had to be relocated to the living room pool because of the flammable nature of dragon tears.
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Erotic Excavations
Pairing: MMF
Standalone: Yes (HEA)
Style: Paranormal Romance / 18+
Content: Erotic Excavations is the first book in the Cretaceous Kink Series and is a MMF romance with two dinosaur shifters and a human. This is a very spicy, low-plot novella that will make you think next time you sit down to watch a dino movie. From the minds of Vera Valentine and Clio Evans, we bring you Pamela Bones— an author who can’t wait to dig up a new kind of love.
This novella contains the following:
Dinosaur shifters
Primal play
Dom/sub dynamics
Fated mates love
Saurian lust unlike anything you’ve read before
Knotting and pheromones
And more...
(If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: A forbidden exhibit, a taboo crush, and an impossible dose of saurian lust are about to turn what should have been a simple errand into a torrid interspecies affair.
The quaint, quirky little town of Fossil Falls has more buried beneath the surface than their famous namesake. A huge secret lies in wait behind charming shopfronts, hotels, and a prestigious museum. Behind that facade, permitting official Diana Jones is about to uncover the find of a lifetime.
But when Diana’s real reason for visiting Fossil Falls is revealed, this excavation may just turn deadly.
Can Tybalt, Casey, and Diana work together to save the town’s secret without losing one another?
Anthologies
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Monsters in Love: Wicked Tales and Monstrous Ever Afters
A Limited Edition Monster Romance Charity Anthology
Monsters do it better—especially when they fall in love.
Dive into this stunning anthology filled with wicked tales and monstrous ever afters. These sweet and steamy short stories feature drool-worthy monsters as they woo and claim their human mates.
Scroll up and one-click this limited edition fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction romance collection today. Proceeds will benefit Best Friends Animal Society, a no-kill animal shelter organization.
Including stories by:
USA Today Bestselling Author Eva Priest writing as Evangeline Priest
USA Today Bestselling Author Vivienne Hart
USA Today Bestselling Author Dee J. Holmes writing as Dee St. Holm
USA Today Bestselling Author Elle Cross
USA Today Bestselling Author C.M. Nascosta
Nova Blake
Clio Evans
Atlas Rose
YD La Mar
Vera Valentine
Ashley Bennett
Cassie Alexander
Ursa Dax
Karen Kincy
L.V. Lane
Cara Wylde
Sonia Nova
Alexa Michaels
Salem Cross
Holly Hanzo
Eden Ember
Cady Austin
Krista Luna
Elsie Winters
Salem Sinclair
Daisy Shell
Elizabeth Austin
Raina St. Clare
Kristen Strassel
Sara Ravencroft
Sabrina Day
Jillian Graves
C. Rochelle
January Bell
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Welcome to Monsters in Love...
Give in to these delicious and dangerous beasts and pre-order your copy today.
Featuring monstrous tales of pleasure by:
Eva Priest writing as Evangeline Priest
Vivienne Hart
Nova Blake
Dee St. Holm
Elle Cross
Atlas Rose
S.J. Sanders
Clio Evans
C.M. Nascosta
YD La Mar
Ashley Bennett
Vera Valentine
Cassie Alexander
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Welcome to Monsters in Love...
From oceans and lakes to rivers and streams, monsters lure in their mates with their siren songs. Get twined in tentacles and fantasize about fins as you, too, are lost in the deeps.
Featuring wet and wild tales of romance by:
Eva Priest writing as Evangeline Priest
Vivienne Hart
Clio Evans
Ashley Bennett
S.J. Sanders
YD La Mar
Ashley Bennett
Vera Valentine
Cassie Alexander
Wren K. Morris
Jillian Graves
C.M. Nascosta
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Monstrous Desires: A Limited Edition Charity Anthology
NOTE: THIS LIMITED EDITION CHARITY ANTHOLOGY IS NOW OUT OF PRINT / NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
This Valentine’s Day, curl up with something steamy, provocative, and monstrous as ten bestselling authors come together to bring you some wicked love stories.
All proceeds to benefit a charity for abused children.
Included in the antho:
M.J. Marstens
Loxley Savage
R.L. Caulder
A.J. Macey
Albany Walker
Beatrix Hollow
Cara Wylde
Debbie Cassidy
Katie May & Ann Denton
Vera Valentine
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Into the Woods: A Monster Anthology
NOTE: THIS LIMITED EDITION ANTHOLOGY IS NOW OUT OF PRINT / NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
> The solo-published version of my story can be found here! <
There's a path that runs straight through the village,
But it stops at the edge of the wood.
It halts at the borders between worlds,
For beyond, there lies nothing of good.
Hushed whispers all speak of what haunts there,
In the brack, in the depths of the fen -
The creatures both monstrous and gaunt there,
Not the village's hale, hearty men.
But cradled in claws in the shadows -
Something kindles like flickering fire -
As hammering heart howls to run,
Something deeper stills, caught by desire.
Seventeen paranormal romance authors gathered together to bring you tales of people following their heart's monstrous desires...directly into the deep, dark woods.
Authors: Salem Sinclair, Maeve Black, L.V. Lane, C. Rochelle, Sienna Varrone, A.R. Breck, Elizabeth Austin, Lillian Lark, Clio Evans, Kassandra Cross, Mallory Fox writing as Lea Jade, Helena Novak & Natalia Prim, Beatrix Hollow, Vera Valentine, YD La Mar, and Ashley Bennett.
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Plucked is an MF paranormal romance between Jax, a grief demon (luctus) and Cara Pierce, a grieving human woman who has just lost her sister. This story is the first step into a planned world called the Moriverse, which will deal with death-centric myths, creatures, and plots.
Content Considerations: Plucked opens at the funeral of the main character’s sibling (passed on from an unnamed terminal disease.) Death, end-of-life care, and grief / mourning are discussed throughout. This story will also incorporate kink, including praise, percussive (flogging) play, attempted sexual assault, murder - both previously alluded as well as on-page - unsanctioned corpse disposal, choking, implied servitude, implied financial fraud, and general skeeviness from a bad guy.
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Creeping in shadows, haunting nightmares, lurking beneath the bed…monsters prowl under the cover of night, waiting until just the right moment to claim and seduce their mates.
With teeth and talons, tails and scales, they’ll tear their way into their lover’s hearts…and into yours.
Get lost in the dark with demons and devils in this delicious new collection.
Featuring monstrous tales of pleasure by:
Eva Priest writing as Evangeline Priest
Vivienne Hart
Nova Blake
Dee J. Holmes
Atlas Rose
S.J. Sanders
Clio Evans
C.M. Nascosta
YD La Mar
Ashley Bennett
Vera Valentine
Cassie Alexander
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This short, smutty MF mischief night story takes place in the Carnal Cryptids universe, specifically between JD and Desi, two characters from the MMMF ‘Why Choose’ monster romance Carnal Cryptids: East Coast. While their partners Penn and Will are mentioned in the story, they aren’t part of the on-page action…this time, anyway. Happy reading!
Content Considerations: This short story has BDSM themes, including bondage, Dominance, submission, primal pursuit, consensual name-calling that some may consider derogatory, gagging (of the silencing variety), unprotected sex, and knotting.
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These tantalizing terrors are hot as hell and on the prowl to claim what's theirs.
Ten scorching tales of beastly bliss await you. Submit to temptation and consent to be bound by the monster...don't forget your safe word.
These wickedly erotic delights offered to you by:
Evangeline Priest
Atlas Rose
Clio Evans
C.M. Nascosta
Cassie Alexander
Vera Valentine
Godiva Glenn
V.T. Bonds
YD La Mar
Kindle Vella
(Ongoing Serialized Fiction)
Nib & Plume Story Information
Nib and Plume
Pairing: MM
Standalone: N/A (Serialized Content / Will Have HEA)
Style: Paranormal Romance / 18+
Content: Content/Trigger Warnings will vary by "episode" / chapter in Vella; please see individual episodes for information. (If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: Already an outcast from his demonic nest, incubus professor Liam Tarve is convinced he needs nothing apart from his studies, his classes, and his privacy to survive. When his mask of propriety starts to feel more like a death sentence, roguish shapeshifter Vander Nahi becomes an unlikely lifeline. But even as Liam explores his unusual desires with his newfound savior, his intellectual ones threaten far more than the pair realize.
Order Up Story Information
Order Up : The Frisky Fables Series
Pairing: MMF
Standalone: N/A (Serialized Content / Will Have HEA)
Style: Paranormal Romance / 18+
Content: Content/Trigger Warnings will vary by "episode" / chapter in Vella; please see individual episodes for information. (If any content notes are missing that you feel should have been included, please reach out!)
Blurb: Work bites. When hardworking accountant Erik finds out the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished, his life changes dramatically - twice - in the course of a single mind-bending night. Terrified and anxious, he later returns to the place his life changed forever to discover yet another knot to untangle. But is Raine the answer he's been looking for, or a delectable misstep he can't afford to make?
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