A southern Goth girl succumbs to the desires of two men who may or may not be vampires in The Dracula Club. A seminary student learns that to love is no sin in Sister Bessie's Boys. Jasper Roux cooks up a meal and a memory in Blood Soup. Vampires, werewolves, and mortals with dark sides come together in a fine anthology of tales written by masters of Gothic romance. Passion, true love, murder, and the howling of wolves in the moonlight meld themselves into masterpieces of story in DARKER EDGE OF DESIRE.

If you're looking for a short, erotic delight which peers at the darker side of all things human, DARKER EDGE OF DESIRE is the novel for you. Each of the short stories contained in this volume is a powerhouse of fun. For fans of Edgar Allen Poe and the like we have stories of mystery. A Bluebeard-type romance opens the book and from that moment until the closing moments of the last werewolf story your heart will beat with excitement. Each writer has done their absolute best to titillate the reader and to boil the blood within.

Vampires, demons, and the unexpected fill the page with fun. DARKER EDGE OF DESIRE does not provide us with experimental horror nor does it give us neatly- wrapped stories. What it does provide is excitement, scads of it. This book is really excellent, each story as delightful as the last.

Book Summary

Love, passion and sex . . . it’s all here in Darker Edge of Desire. Gothic literature has always possessed a dark attraction ripe with the promise of the forbidden and the sensual. In Darker Edge of Desire, Mitzi Szereto takes the sexualized Gothic and ratchets it up a few notches into the danger zone, opening a door into the darker side of lust and love that only the courageous dare to venture through.

Venturing even farther into the world of mystery and romance than she did in the critically acclaimed Red Velvet and Absinthe, Szereto creates an atmosphere with a distinct Gothic flavor where we explore our more forbidden desires. In these tales, love and lust (and kink!) know no boundaries, and all nature of beings —vampires, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts, and succubae — abound. Tread carefully, danger and desire lie ahead!

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