Malthea neither reveals her birthdate nor admits to a last name. She does bow to the necessity for a physical location, which currently goes by the name Gainesville, Florida, though once it was known as Alachua—which Malthea prefers as infinitely more melodic. It was here that she attended college, never managing—or indeed trying—to fit in with the football-centric student body that proudly performed something called the Gator Chomp at every game. It wasn’t easy being apathetic in the heart of rah-rah country or dressing in head to toe black every day when temperatures could and did reach triple digits, but Malthea credits surviving this ordeal with giving her the perseverance necessary to finish her first book. Malthea has been fascinated by vampires since she first learned of their existence and has spent many, many hours reading about them or watching them on film. She also loves Blackadder, Emma Thompson, and salted caramel lattes. She lives a few blocks from the Hippodrome and used to hang out at the Hardback Café. These days she tends to stay in and get things done…if you count making up stories as getting things done. Malthea does. And she has the unconditional love and unwavering support of a small black Manx named Lirazel and a cardboard standup of Brandon Lee as Eric Draven in The Crow. She’d like to travel to places with lower temperatures and more cloud cover.
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Author Connie Bailey has written in a wide variety of genres under different pen names. Now check out this exclusive bundle of several of her different works all in one place! Enjoy these stories featuring an undercover policeman and a drug lord's boytoy, an unlikely vampire and his hipster/geek love, two men hiding a secret in an arranged marriage, a young prince and his bodyguard, and two imperial army recruits fighting for honor and love. Five stories in one volume!
When half-Korean sci fi-fantasy gamer nerd Cyrus Gae goes out clubbing on his first night of vacation, he’s not expecting to be bitten by a vampire. Not in Florida, the land of sunshine and Mickey Mouse. He’s not exactly averse to being a creature of the night, but he’s righteously pissed off about the vampire’s cavalier eat-and-run attitude. Determined to track down Troy, the bloodsucker who turned him, Cyrus takes the name Vlad and begins a search that will take him to leather bars, vampire dens, and cyber cafés.
As Cyrus hunts the elusive vampire, he meets Logon, the hipster/geek love of his afterlife; Vinnie, his Girl Friday the 13th; and even an intersexual voodoo queen, while learning that being a supernatural bad-ass isn’t quite what he imagined. In fact, hardly anything is what it seems, and Vlad finds himself in the middle of an intrigue involving Florida’s master vampire—who isn’t thrilled about Vlad’s sudden appearance in his domain. With powerful forces aligning against Vlad, he’ll have no choice but to become the hero he never wanted to be if he wants to keep his beloved Logon safe.
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