The mob is out for blood — literally! At the height of prohibition, the real threat on the streets of 1929 Chicago isn't Al Capone and his empire built on bootleg whiskey; it's the vampire mafia. And the liquid they trade is of an altogether deadlier variety. In this hidden world, the vampire mafia is bootlegging an addictive and deadly synthetic blood called Thrill. When the vampire Maurice discovers their blood-running operation, he must act to stop the flow of bootlegged blood, or risk the power balance of the vampire world tipping entirely into the hands of those who have been corrupted. But the mafia doesn't take kindly to interlopers, even those with fangs. The Vampire Maurice is book one of a side series set in the world of the bestselling Fat Vampire world.
When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin meets a vampire, he wakes to discover he's become the slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire ever created ... doomed to "heal" to his corpulent self for all of eternity.
After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation.
Discover the world of The Paranormal Council in this enthralling vampire & jackal shifter paranormal romance featuring fated mates, newly turned vampires, and more! What if the only way to save him was to turn him into a vampire? Tony never asked to be a vampire. He didn't even know they existed until he interrupted the wrong man. Eden has always avoided turning anyone, but there was something about Tony that made her do it. But now, she has to face the consequences of her actions that night. And adding a new vampire into the mix, doesn't make that any easier. - The Vampire's Bite is book four of The Paranormal Council, a fated mates paranormal romance series. It can be read as a standalone and includes a shifter-vampire m/f romance. If you enjoy fated mates, light-hearted paranormal romances, intertwined standalones, a hint of steam, quick reads, and plenty of swoon, check out the complete Paranormal Council series today! Search Terms for The Paranormal Council series: paranormal romance, pnr, fated mates, shifters, shifter romance, witches, dryads, nymphs, necromancers, banshees, panther shifter, tiger shifter, snake shifter, owl shifter, jackal shifter, vampire, vampire romance, witch romance, leopard shifter, dragon shifter, unicorn shifter, dating app, incubus, faerie, fae, fairy, siren, ladybird shifter, ladybug shifter, hare shifter, raven shifter, steamy romance, steamy paranormal romance, destiny, fate, love, meant-to-be, friends-to-lovers, second chance, one night to forever, single parent, contemporary fantasy, quick reads, enemies-to-lovers, sports romance, forbidden romance, opposites attract, workplace romance, urban fantasy romance, fantasy romance, unusual shifters. If you love these authors, you’ll enjoy this series: JR Ward, Sarah J Maas, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Karen Marie Moning, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Kresley Cole, Nalini Singh, Christine Feehan, Gina Showalter, Lora Leigh, Patricia Briggs, Rebecca Zanetti, Abigail Owen, Laurell K. Hamilton, I.T. Lucas, Jeaniene Frost, Lynsay Sands, Lori Foster, Kat Martin, KF Breene, Nora Roberts, Britt Andrews, Donna Grant, Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham, Amelia Hutchins, Ilona Andrews,Tate James, Kathryn Moon, Angel Lawson, Ashley N. Rostek, Siobhan Davis, Kit Rocha, Crystal Ash, Eva Ashwood, Sarah Piper, Raven Kennedy, J.D. Robb, Kait Ballenger, Shelly Laurenston, Kerri Maniscalco, Anna Hackett, Terry Bolryder, Julie Ann Walker, Alexandra Ivy, Brittney Sahin, Jennifer Estep, Susan Fanetti, Lara Adrian, Brenda K. Davies, Leia Stone, Kristen Ashley, Leann Castellanos, Dianne Duvall, Kathleen Ryder, Candace Sams, Tina Moss, Ruby Dixon, Ella Maven and Teresa Gabelman.
Sometimes the safest place to hide is directly in the public eye. Someone has been glamouring Dr. Annabel Rice, and Maurice is not happy about it. Especially when he figures out what kind of information they are trying to glean. This time, hiding in the shadows isn’t going to work. When a TV producer approaches Maurice about turning some unfortunate online videos of Reginald being a vampire (which the human world assumes are hilarious fakes) into a real TV show, Maurice and Reginald hide from dangerous vampires by enmeshing themselves in the complex world of the small silver screen. Will the fame go to Maurice’s head? And can the good guys stay alive long enough to see Reginald’s TV show wrap and outwit their stalkers? Fangs and Fame is book four of The Vampire Maurice side series set in the world of the bestselling Fat Vampire world.
The Era of Nighttime Has Begun... Forty years have passed since the end of the vampire/human war. Vampires have taken over the planet and have settled in, making themselves comfortable in the infrastructure their predecessors built, with just a few adjustments to ensure a permanent night. Humans still exist, tightly controlled, because the alpha species needs to eat. But even after four decades of peace, Reginald can't shake his conviction that the war never really ended — that the archive he still holds in his blood warns of an ominous change on the horizon. As old foes rise, the power structures of both races begin to falter and the very existence of life on Earth (both hot-blooded and undead) hangs in the balance. Rebel humans have developed new and frightening weapons, and they aren't afraid to use them even if it could mean the end of everything. And Reginald Baskin — always an outcast, always neglected — may be the only chance to stop it. But as Reginald steps into his destined role as a leader, he faces a hideous inevitability that even he never saw coming … and that he may be too late to prevent.
No ordinary beast, Maurice is neat, polite, photogenic, and his roar is delightful to the ear, which leads his parents to enroll him at the Abominable Academy for Brutish Beasts, where he realizes he has a few things he can teach his fellow beasts.
Immortality Has Met Its Match... Ever since the Ring of Fire, the world's vampires have seen their mortality. They won’t live forever after all — not if the angels who created them decide to snuff them like candles. What do the angels want? What did their command to “restore balance” truly mean? For most, the angels’ decrees mean mass murder and mass turnings … but the humans aren’t sheep, and won’t just lie down and take it forever. As Deacon Maurice tries to maintain order with Reginald by his side, panic consumes the Vampire Nation. The center begins to fall apart and chaos grows like cancer. But as war between vampires and humans threatens, Reginald begins to discover strange new abilities within him: to navigate through blood history like no other vampire before him. To glamour those who can’t be glamoured. And seemingly, to stop time itself. Fear has reached its tipping point. War is close. Reginald might hold the key to the angels’ mystery … but whatever could help him intervene just might be too late.
In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.
Ulrika, recently turned as a vampire, attempts to adjust to her new way of life. But when a fellow vampire is killed in Nuln, Ulrika and her mentor, Gabriella, are sent to investigate. Soon they find themselves facing danger from all sides as they attempt to solve a mystery that threatens the very existence of the Lahmian bloodline. How can they hope to destroy something with the power to kill a vampire?
