Dark Side of the Moon

by Laura Baumbach

Recovering from a near fatal injury, vampire Harley Scott just wants some peace, quiet and a long night filled with darkness. The wilds of icy Canada sounds like the best place to make that happen-- if he can make it past blizzards, werewolves, and -- oh, yeah, a death squad of fellow vampires on his trail.

This story has been previously published.

Genres: M M Romance, Vampires, Paranormal, Supernatural, Shapeshifters, Short Stories, Romance

63 pages, ebook

First published October 4, 2011

About the author

Laura Baumbach is the best-selling, multi-award winning, acclaimed author of short stories, novellas, novels and screenplays. Most recently, Mexican Heat, written in collaboration with Josh Lanyon, has been chosen as a FINALIST for Best Gay Romance in the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards, a FINALIST in the 2010 EPPIE Awards, and has received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival. Laura was nominated for Best GBLT Author 2008 in the LRC's Best Of Awards for 2008. Her adventure story The Lost Temple of Karttikeya won the 2008 EPPIE Award for Best GLBT novel. Her sequel to the best-selling novel A Bit of Rough, Roughhousing, was 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award Winner.

Reviews

[Simsala · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alpha-werewolf/vampire-rent boy pillow talk...

-"Christ!"
-"No,werewolf."
-"Asshole", "Beast."
-"Corpse."
-"Carnivore."
-"Cadaver."
-"Ah! That was a low blow."
- ...

An entertaining and HOT the-odd-couple story but too short...

[Meggie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow this short novella was, damn, sincerely said to short for my liking. Why, why so short... I loved it, at least what I read.

[Elayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it, Have read it more than once.

[Phaney · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it. It didn’t exactly follow the usual short story type fling, even though it did. Am I making sense? Hell, no; I am too tired.

It took a long while for the protagonist to actually meet up with the guy destined to be his, and they did have sex almost right away, and it ended just when the narrator began to allow himself to give the two of them a real chance. So it kind of felt as though the first half was a wandering/flight plot, wherein an injured vampire recaps his life and encounters help in temporarily escaping his pursuers. The second half was taken up by the usual fare; being picked up, sex, revelation/mating, a fight against the pursuers, intention of love.

But yeah, I mostly liked it, even if it felt a little distant. That could be due to the short format, too.

The werewolf mate thing surprised me by conforming to the usual standards; I don’t know why I was expecting something off the beaten path, but it was fine anyway. What I did get to see of the werewolf, I liked. A good guy.

[Ayanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

...because this mix of vampires and Canada is such a patently weird mix that I just HAVE to see what this is about...

Post-read ETA:
I really rather liked this one. The ideas are novel, interesting, and there's a happy-making HEA.

[Maya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would have loved for this to have been longer.

[Gerald Sessions · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vampire/ werewolf

A great story great characters with a touch of magic would love to read more about Harley and Matt and Matt's family.