New Monstrous Romances
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Available Now: Found Among Wolves
A human who wants to be hunted. A strange forest in a new town. A werewolf pack that meets by moonlight. An erotic romance between a man and the pack he comes to love.
Found Among Wolves is a short, moody queer erotic tale about a man named Levi whose monstrous desires are out of step with the men he tries to date. It’s a story about unspeakable longing and how it drives us from others – until we allow ourselves to give in to those things that have no name. Featuring an explicitly sexual and ambiguously romantic relationship between one (1) human and a pack of werewolves, be warned that it is about as beastly an arrangement as it gets.
If you’re looking for a short, spooky, sexy, and yet thoughtful monster romance this Halloween, I have you covered.
An Excerpt from Found Among Wolves
There were two truths about Levi that seemed unshakeable. One was that he wasn’t great to have around at parties; the other was that he wanted to be hunted.
It was a persistent fantasy that he maintained for most of his life. His fantasies began as dreams as early as puberty, those sticky teenage years, the surging hormones upending his sense of himself, his body. Levi dreamed of moonlight streaming through the trees and being chased by someone, something, who could have hurt him if they wanted to make it happen. He wanted to be chased down and forced into the dirt.
Bitten.
Scratched.
These impulses were difficult to put a voice to, shameful like a crime that made his dick strain whenever his mind drifted back to the woods at night. The forest and the secrets it held called Levi. From the first time he touched himself through his clothes, then later during fumbling hook-ups in cars or dorm rooms when he was figuring out sex with other men in college. It was there behind his eyes: the brush snatching at his skin and warm dirt under his nails. Heavy breathing, bruising fingers, teeth.
Gleaming white inhuman teeth, saliva shining under the moonlight.
By 28, Levi was now dangerously close to 30, no longer a slim boy dreaming of beasts but a grown man. He still lived in the same suburban sprawl where he was raised and knew all the same people, from old classmates to family friends. His chances of meeting someone new were vanishingly small. Levi resigned to keeping these things to himself.
Available Now: In the Bedroom of Medusa
In case you would like something else to read this Halloween, I have you covered with my latest novella.
In the Bedroom of Medusa is a lush, erotic, and patently off-beat F/F romance novella featuring a relationship between a curious human and a gorgon seeking intimacy with another woman despite her beastly appearance. It is a story about the connections between women and how the choices we make to protect ourselves may threaten the love we cultivate unless we learn to embrace the vulnerability — the terror of being seen — that comes with it.