Hollywood After Dark Series

The last person Stella Robertson expected to meet at a late evening signing for her latest vampire book was a handsome man wearing a tux, cape, and realistic vampire fangs. But it was Halloween so she dismissed his claims of knowing more about vampires...until he spoke directly into her mind and convinced her he did know what he was talking about. As prince of the California nightwalkers, Sebastian Moret knew it wasn’t wise to get too close to his favorite author, but she was so lovely, so sexy, and her blood so delicious—sometimes even a four-hundred year old vampire is tempted into a mistake. But this mistake haunts him when Stella seeks him out, not once, but twice. When she tracks him to his winery in the Napa valley, Sebastian is forced to make Stella his companion to buy her silence. Given their rocky start, both Stella and Sebastian know their relationship needs work but when Sebastian and his werewolf servants come under attack, the pair must put aside their differences and use all of their wits and talents to thwart the plot against them.

Sharon Colson is desperate. Stranded in the California coastal town of Los Niños de la Noche, she’s broke, locked out of her rooming house, and needs a job. Jonathan Knottman, the local vampire, is the only one in town hiring but he won’t take her on as a bartender without her becoming his vampire companion. With no other options Sharon accepts the mark of his fangs on her neck, and thus enters the parafolk world of the All Night Inn. Over the course of the next few weeks Sharon learns many lessons from Jonathan—what brand of dog-food shapeshifters like to nibble on with their beer, the kinds of drinks spellcasters favor, and that he’d rather be known as a nightwalker than the politically incorrect term of vampire. As the parafolk celebrate the full moon with howls and dancing, she even learns to love him the way he loves her. But the biggest lesson is one Jonathan and Sharon must both learn—that love cannot thrive unless it is based on trust, of yourself and your partner.

Former movie star, now turned vampire, Cleopatra Lutz is bored with delivery boy dinners, but Michael Brown is far more excitement than she’s bargained for. The utterly delicious man wants to be her nightwalker companion -- her regular blood source as well as her lover -- but she’s wary of letting any man get too close to her. Michael has had a crush on Cleo for years, but when she takes sexual advantage of him, eats then runs, he decides not to let her get away with it. It doesn’t help that she’s left the mark of her fangs in a very sensitive location and he needs proper ones to designate him as her companion. He is willing to do anything, even kidnap her and hold her prisoner in an abandoned movie studio to work things out with her. Michael offers Cleo a life with others of her kind, plus a return to her career as a movie star, but ultimately it is his love and trust that will win her mark.

Christmas is hard for a lot of people, but for Calla Douglas it’s become unbearable. She thought to end her life but when the wind blows her off a tall building, she isn’t sorry to be rescued in mid-air by a flying man. Unfortunately finding out he has fangs dampens her relief. When Nightwalker Daniel Wilde rescued Calla, all he intended was for her to be the temporary companion he takes before Christmas Eve, to keep at bay the loneliness he feels each year. Trouble is, she’s got a way of making him think more permanently than he’s comfortable with. Both Calla and Daniel have “ghosts” of past Christmases, bad memories that haunt them, but through love, companionship—and a lot of mind-blowing sex—this holiday may become the last one those ghosts will ever visit.