Mere Rain's Blog - Posts Tagged "fantasy"
Mythical Girls
Now Available! Mythical Girls
This is an anthology themed around girls discovering mythical or magical artifacts.
This is an anthology themed around girls discovering mythical or magical artifacts.
TRICKS for Halloween
My spooky and sexy Halloween short is now available!
Halloween is supposed to be a night for safe scares and harmless tricks, not terror ... or romance.
College student Colin agrees to take his little cousin trick-or-treating, anticipating nothing worse than having to shepherd a bunch of sugar-crazed third-graders and a poorly-trained puppy. When the kids run ahead to peek into the local supposedly-haunted house, it seems like a harmless bit of mischief until the puppy crawls through a basement window and is lost. Colin promises to get her back. The place may be dark and creepy, but it can't really be haunted. When the house turns out to be occupied by an attractive man who is willing to let him in, it seems like a lucky break ... at first.
Secrets. Sometimes Cat feels like he has nothing but secrets. No family, no freedom, not even a real name. Colin seems nice, but Cat doesn't owe him anything, not when the risk of punishment for helping a stranger is so high. But he's looking for a puppy, and Cat has a soft spot for dogs. And possibly also a soft spot for kind boys with soft lips. But the apparently simple task of finding a missing pet won't be as easy as it sounds, because the house isn't what it seems... and neither is Cat.
Could Colin possibly still want Cat if he learns the truth? They won't find out unless they manage to escape the darkness of the house.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BJNQV6KF
Halloween is supposed to be a night for safe scares and harmless tricks, not terror ... or romance.
College student Colin agrees to take his little cousin trick-or-treating, anticipating nothing worse than having to shepherd a bunch of sugar-crazed third-graders and a poorly-trained puppy. When the kids run ahead to peek into the local supposedly-haunted house, it seems like a harmless bit of mischief until the puppy crawls through a basement window and is lost. Colin promises to get her back. The place may be dark and creepy, but it can't really be haunted. When the house turns out to be occupied by an attractive man who is willing to let him in, it seems like a lucky break ... at first.
Secrets. Sometimes Cat feels like he has nothing but secrets. No family, no freedom, not even a real name. Colin seems nice, but Cat doesn't owe him anything, not when the risk of punishment for helping a stranger is so high. But he's looking for a puppy, and Cat has a soft spot for dogs. And possibly also a soft spot for kind boys with soft lips. But the apparently simple task of finding a missing pet won't be as easy as it sounds, because the house isn't what it seems... and neither is Cat.
Could Colin possibly still want Cat if he learns the truth? They won't find out unless they manage to escape the darkness of the house.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BJNQV6KF
Winter Solstice Gothic
NOW AVAILABLE! My supernatural winter Gothic, In the Dark Heart of Winter.
This novella is set in 1860, when respectable young ladies got married. To men, whether they fancied them or not. Heart-broken when her lover and best friend Margaret married and moved away, Isabeau accepted the proposal of a distant cousin, but she regrets this decision even before he insists on taking her to his cold and ruinous ancestral home. Horace does not seem to care about her, either, and soon she begins to wonder about his motives.
Her fears are compounded when strangers arrive seeking refuge from the snow, and her husband's behavior becomes strangely hostile. Vairya and Ranat seem friendly, but why are they in this isolated region at all? It can't be coincidence that they come from Persia, where her husband was until recently stationed as a diplomat.
Eventually one visitor confides in Isabeau, but her claims are so wild they cannot be true. Can they? Should she trust her heart, and perhaps her survival, to this stranger who seems to share her forbidden desires?
You can purchase this book from Amazon or from the publisher, JMS Books. ALSO! JMS is having their annual Advent giveaway of a different free book each day, so check out the site even if you're not sure about my book.
You can also of this story being read by Yule Planet author Angel Martinez
I hope you're all having a good December. Or at least better than these unfortunate characters!
Mere
This novella is set in 1860, when respectable young ladies got married. To men, whether they fancied them or not. Heart-broken when her lover and best friend Margaret married and moved away, Isabeau accepted the proposal of a distant cousin, but she regrets this decision even before he insists on taking her to his cold and ruinous ancestral home. Horace does not seem to care about her, either, and soon she begins to wonder about his motives.
Her fears are compounded when strangers arrive seeking refuge from the snow, and her husband's behavior becomes strangely hostile. Vairya and Ranat seem friendly, but why are they in this isolated region at all? It can't be coincidence that they come from Persia, where her husband was until recently stationed as a diplomat.
Eventually one visitor confides in Isabeau, but her claims are so wild they cannot be true. Can they? Should she trust her heart, and perhaps her survival, to this stranger who seems to share her forbidden desires?
You can purchase this book from Amazon or from the publisher, JMS Books. ALSO! JMS is having their annual Advent giveaway of a different free book each day, so check out the site even if you're not sure about my book.
You can also of this story being read by Yule Planet author Angel Martinez
I hope you're all having a good December. Or at least better than these unfortunate characters!
Mere
September, suddenly busy!
I have a fantasy novella releasing this weekend!
Princes, entering an arranged marriage to end a war—or at least that was the plan before they were ambushed and left on their own in the forest. Can they work together, even though one of them may be the traitor?
Preorder Princes at War from the publisher at a temporary low prince of $3.37.
Also from the publisher only, I'll have a couple books free from Sept 28 to Oct 5.
My sapphic Gothic In the Dark Heart of Winter and contemporary mm romance Didn't Know We Needed. Just cuz I felt like it.
I also have a 17k story in a MM paranormal anthology called Love is Magic which is a fundraiser for SantaCan, a charity that buys holiday gifts for children in foster care. The stories are holiday-gift themed.
https://readerlinks.com/L/4995814
...And speaking of Christmas, I'll again have a free short book included in JMS Books annual Advent Calendar, which is a different freebie each day. This year mine is a best-friends-to-boyfriends with ace rep.
Princes, entering an arranged marriage to end a war—or at least that was the plan before they were ambushed and left on their own in the forest. Can they work together, even though one of them may be the traitor?
Preorder Princes at War from the publisher at a temporary low prince of $3.37.
Also from the publisher only, I'll have a couple books free from Sept 28 to Oct 5.
My sapphic Gothic In the Dark Heart of Winter and contemporary mm romance Didn't Know We Needed. Just cuz I felt like it.
I also have a 17k story in a MM paranormal anthology called Love is Magic which is a fundraiser for SantaCan, a charity that buys holiday gifts for children in foster care. The stories are holiday-gift themed.
https://readerlinks.com/L/4995814
...And speaking of Christmas, I'll again have a free short book included in JMS Books annual Advent Calendar, which is a different freebie each day. This year mine is a best-friends-to-boyfriends with ace rep.
