First Bite: Ten Full-Length Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Romance Novels Featuring Vampires
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Ten full-length novels featuring Vampires as villains, heroes, anti-heroes, love interests, and sometimes a bit of all the above.
Sink your teeth into these novels by award-winning and USA Today bestselling authors. Download this collection now!
About the books:
Grendel & Beowulf by C. Gockel
A curmudgeonly monster and the hero destined to destroy her … they might save the world if they can keep from killing each other. An enemies to lovers romance in a world where myths and fairy tales are real.
Falling Dark by Christine Pope
After surviving a near-fatal car accident, Serena Quinn grapples with uncontrollable visions, retreating from society to escape their grasp. And when a mysterious attack exposes her to a hidden world of scheming vampires, the enigmatic Silas emerges as her sole protector.
A Scarlet Pathogen by C. Rene Astle
Mina Sun is dying for life to return to normal after her mother’s sudden death. So she goes out for a night of drinking and dancing and wakes up to a life she never dreamed existed. Surrounded by vampires, werewolves and demons, will life ever be normal again?
Crimson Trial by Holly Hook
In a world where vampires reign, humans suffer, and challenging the elite is forbidden, I broke the rules. Striving to change our fate, I catch the eye of the powerful and relentless vampire. He reenters my life with a chilling proposition: “You’re mine.”
Harsh Line by Ann Gimpel
I’ve been hiding out forever in one guise or another. My nightclub, Ascent, is an “ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies” haven. For everybody. I’m a Vampire. Far be it from me to judge.
Dead Rising by Debra Dunbar
When necromantic magic threatens the humans and supernaturals in Baltimore, it’s up to Templar Aria Ainsworth to right the wrongs and put the dead back in their graves.
When Vamps Bite by Nicole Zoltack
Detective Clarissa Tempest is determined to keep her city safe from vampires — but first, she needs to convince her team that they exist at all. Suspended from the force, Clarissa has no choice but to take matters into her own hands…
Blood Vice by Angela Roquet
When Detective Jenna Skye wakes up in the morgue to discover her partner is dead, she thinks her night can’t get any worse. Then she finds a werewolf squatting in her house and drops dead at dawn. She’s always wanted to take a bite out of crime, though maybe not this literally.
Moonlight, Roses & Murder by Lorri Moulton & Anna-Violetta Carsini
Selina is a woman with a secret…and she has been hiding it for a very long time. When someone leaves a body behind her club, she is drawn into a web of mystery and murder.
Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter by Nikki Jefford
Her rare blood type sealed her fate as a vampire hunter in Alaska. Now eighteen-year-old Aurora Sky must evade the biggest threat of all...a forbidden love.
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C. Gockel has been writing fantasy and sci-fi for her friends and family since the dark ages (i.e., before word processors existed) twisting familiar legends, myths, and tropes in unexpected directions. A few years ago, she started posting stories to the intertubes. She received emails, messages, and reviews from her fans telling her she should 'do this professionally.' She didn't; she is a coward and life as a digital designer, copywriter and coder is more dependable. But in the end, her husband's nagging wore her down: "You could be the next '50 Shades of Gray' and I could retire!" Unfortunately, the author writes science fiction and fantasy, and isn't particularly good at writing erotica. She is sad about this; she'd love for her husband to be able to retire and just work for her so she could nag him.
Grendel & Beowulf, her contribution to First Bite is the legend of Beowulf retold in an urban fantasy future. Grendel, Beowulf's arch nemesis is a vampire. Besides battling each other, they'll have to survive run ins with deities, dwarves, and magical beings.
A native of Southern California, USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope has been writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back in grade school. Because she's a lover of many genres, her books include paranormal romance, fantasy romance, and paranormal cozy mystery. She blames this on being easily distracted by bright, shiny objects, which could also account for the size of her shoe collection. The Land of Enchantment cast its spell on her while she was researching her Djinn Wars series, and she now makes her home in New Mexico.
Falling Dark, her contribution to first bite, a vampiric guardian might be enough to save a young woman with extraordinary magical abilities from a dark fate.
C. Rene Astle is an author (and avid reader) of fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction novels, as well as a number of short stories.
She gained a love of fiction, fantasy in particular, and a voracious appetite for story literally at her mother’s knee, being read The Hobbit and Chronicles of Narnia – because those are the types of stories her mom wanted to read.
From her father, she got an enduring curiosity about the universe, earned shivering in the dark beside a telescope on cold, Canadian winter nights waiting to witness some celestial event.
Now she fits in writing between her day job, gardening and getting out to enjoy supernatural British Columbia.
A Scarlet Fever features a vampiric protagonist that didn't choose the undead life ... unfortunately the undead life chose her.
Holly Hook writes a variety of young adult, or YA fantasy. She loves to read and write anything from teen paranormal romance, time travel, fairy tale retellings, and urban fantasy. Her current series, the Alpha Legacy, is now complete! Wolf Bound released October 15, and the sequels, Pack Bound and Magic Bound, released shortly after.
In her contribution to First Bite, Crimson Trial, a courageous young woman takes on vampire overlords in a magical Washington D.C.
Ann Gimpel is USA Today bestselling author. She's also a mountaineer and vagabond at heart. She's stood on top of some really gnarly peaks and loved every minute.
A lifelong aficionado of the unusual, Ann began writing speculative fiction a few years back. Since then her short stories have appeared in many webzines, magazines, and anthologies. Her longer contemporary fantasy, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy books are available in print, audio, and e-format. After over two dozen books with publishers, she made the leap into self-publishing in 2014. Ann loves the freedom, and it's possible she'll never look back.
In Harsh Line, her contribution to First Bite, a Vampire club owner whose best friends is a shape shifting dire wolf, is keeping a low profile after supernatural's existence has been revealed. But the in-fighting between witches, druids, fae, and sorcerers is going to put her at risk.
Debra lives in a little house in the woods with her three sons, and a Noah's ark of four legged family members. She drives a gigantic diesel SUV, couldn't carry a tune if you duct taped it to her back, and enjoys an occasional cosmopolitan (heavy on the vodka) ... oh, and writing urban fantasy, sci-fi, and paranormal with sassy heroines and swoon worthy romantic leads. On a good day, she jogs and horseback rides, hopefully managing to keep the horse between herself and the ground. Her only known super power is 'Identify Roadkill'.
In Dead Rising, her contribution to First Bite, a Templar Knight must choose between loyalty to her order, and growing attraction to a Vampire she's come to trust ... and more.
Nicole Zoltack is a USA Today bestselling author who loves to write romance of all kinds, from historical to urban fantasy and paranormal. Of course. She did marry her first kiss, after all!
When she’s not writing about knights, superheroes, or witches, she enjoys spending time with her loving husband, three energetic young boys, and two precious little girls. She enjoys riding horses (pretending they’re unicorns, of course!) and going to the PA Renaissance Faire dressed in garb. She’ll also read anything she can get her hands on. Her current favorite TV shows are The Witcher and Stranger Things.
In When Vamps Bite, her contribution to First Bite, Detective Clarissa Tempest is about to come face to face with the supernatural world ... and the face of the supernatural world is a Vampire and his fangs are sharp.
USA Today bestselling author Angela Roquet is a great big weirdo. She lives in Missouri with her husband and son in a house stuffed with books, toys, skulls, owls, and glitter-speckled craft supplies. Angela is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, as well as the Four Horsemen of the Bookocalypse, her epic book critique group, where she's known as Death. When not swearing at the keyboard while writing urban fantasy and paranormal romance with epic heroines and laugh out-loud humor, she enjoys boating with her family at Lake of the Ozarks and reading books that raise eyebrows.
In Blood Vice, Detective Jenna Skye wakes up in a morgue a vampire. Thrust into a world of werewolves and monsters, she vows to find her partner's killer ... a vow complicated by a fresh aversion to sunlight and a thirst for something a little stiffer than revenge.
“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”
--Lewis Carroll
Lorri Moulton lives on a farm in Eastern Washington with five horses and live in a lovely part of the country, which inspires many of her stories. She writes romance, suspense, fantasy, mysteries, fairytales, and historical non-fiction.
In Moonlight, Roses, and Murder vampire Selena faces off against a Vampire hunter searching for a murderer. How can she convince him she is not the Vampire he is looking for?
Nikki Jefford is a third-generation Alaskan nomad married to an amazing Frenchman. She loves fictional bad boys and heroines who kick butt! Books, travel, TV series, hiking, writing, and motorcycle riding are her favorite escapes. The dark side of human nature fascinates her, so long as it's balanced by humor and romance.
In Aurora Skye, a Vampire hunter faces a threat more dangerous than the fanged kind ... forbidden love.
Caffeine addict, boy referee, and romance aficionado, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Harte has over 130 books published with more constantly on the way. She’s a confessed bibliophile and devotee of action movies. Whether hiking in Central Oregon, biking around town, or hanging at the local tea shop, she’s constantly plotting to give everyone a happily ever after.
In Between Bloode and Stone, snarky fae and a snarkier vampire's battle for supremacy. Unlikely romance might foil both their plans.
