I was a blood slave in a vampire den, until a pack of werewolves “rescue” (kidnap) me and tell me that I’m one of them.Back at their lake house, Luca, a gorgeous tattooed werewolf, takes care of me while I detox off vampire venom. He makes it clear that he wants me, and I can’t help falling for him. Who can blame me - he’s pierced down there!But Luca’s already mates with Cade, the grumpy Alpha. He thinks I’m a liability, and I thin...

They told us the legends, but they were full of half-truths and darker secrets. Vampires bask in daylight. Rain sears the skin. And human blood is poison…except for one rare type: A Negative. Octavia is an Aneg who has hidden in the shadows her whole life. Seth, heir to one of the most powerful vampire families in the South, is the anomaly who can't drink her blood. Three years ago, he saved her from being harvested, and he has kept her safe in the woods of East Texas ever since. But when ...

In a world where superpowers are rare but real, Ryan Carter has spent his entire life living in the shadows, partially by choice, but also by necessity. At least, that’s what he tells himself.As a shadow manipulator who is reluctant to use his powers too openly, Ryan is scraping by delivering pizzas in New Avalon’s industrial underbelly. He’s seen what happens to people with relatively minor powers like him who get noticed by the superhero teams, corporations, or criminal factions. ...

Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain,...