A female co-worker asks a shy guy to help keep her from being ragged on at a family function -- but it turns out that there's a little more to it... / (Reviews)
Part of the Vampire and Werewolf Chronicles
A young man finds that he is the descendant of vampire race that was thought to destroyed or exiled by the other vampires they once ruled. In a string of events, he will begin to discover his true potential as he is hunted by the family he has always known and the father he never knew.
His mother and sister both had told him he should have never married in the first place. And perhaps he shouldn't have... but he had done so for reasons that he couldn't share with either one of them
This is one of many of what I call "The Laura Stories". Each of the stories is written as if it were her first time - just something I prefer. This one is about lovely Laura at a film lab with her boss, and they have to work late to get the film done for the next day. It gets hot in a film lab - in more ways than you thought.
A story in the Immortals Universe
A terrific Canadian novelist, Lynsay Sands created the Immortal series. Not vampires, exactly. I love her books! Her scientific immortals require blood to fuel "nanos", medically engineered healing nanobots created in Atlantis ages past. Here, I've borrowed her "not vampire" theme, creating a short story of an encounter in the Victorian era.
When Eric and Shannon Rogers went to the airport to pick up their son returning home from basic military training, they knew that he was bringing a friend home with him for the two weeks. They had assumed that, like their son, Private Miller would be a teenager. They were wrong.
Muffy visits her cousins on the farm every summer, but this year something's different. Her cousins are hiding something. When she finds out what it is, she wants to join in. Then they all find out there's much more to their ancestry than anyone would have thought. What they learn brings new meaning to "It's a family affair".