The Vampire Haven

An in-progress 7-novella series of gay vampire erotic romance. Wholesome, romantic smut and also a plot.

At a secret diner in Chicago, humans and vampires create a community. Strictly speaking, it’s not a sex club. But the Haven is the only place vampires can be themselves, without the outside world getting a say. And, well, it turns out most folks find blood sucking erotic. Come get y’all beloved romance and erotica tropes.

Some notes: If you know me from AO3 (HolyCatsAndRabbits), this is like “what if I put Life of the Party and Tollense together and made it erotica.” This series is in progress (I’m on book 2), and might be self-published: it depends on what happens with the novel I’m querying, Forewarning. I usually don’t talk about works in progress, but I want to build up some hype and also demonstrate that I’m actually writing these and not churning out 7 novellas in 10 minutes with AI. So please bear with me if there are minor changes going forward…

Book One

Finn and August: A gorgeous, charming vampire looking for his happily-eternally-after falls ridiculously hard for a shy, nerdy human who’s never had a date in his life.

Finn Sullivan is among the most eligible bachelors in Chicago, with movie-star good looks and a reputation as a talented gentle dom. Secretly, he’s also a vampire looking for the love of his life in the shape of a human who wants a very long-term relationship. Finn realizes almost immediately upon meeting introverted, inexperienced August Amesbury that August could be The One. But Finn’s been disappointed in love before—will sweet, shy August only break his heart once more?

August Amesbury can get his head around the idea of actual vampires congregating in a diner to have lots of sex. And while he has no idea what these (very) friendly strangers mean when they say August is a sub in need of a gentle dom, he’s down for figuring that out. What August can’t believe is that Finn Sullivan, the most beautiful person in the world, could actually be interested in awkward, geeky August. But that could be a problem, because August is pretty sure he’s already falling in love.

Plus! A plot! What will August’s awful cousin Logan do when he finds out August has snagged the trophy lover Logan’s been chasing?

Book Two

Sean and Will: An anxious, psychic human and a heartbroken vampire meet at sea in 1915, and must work together to save their ship from an awful fate, while dealing with their growing, inconvenient attraction.

Sean Quillen lives a life in hiding: his family would definitely disapprove of Sean being psychic and/or attracted to men. So when Sean foresees catastrophe on the family’s oversea journey to Liverpool, he finds his only ally in the fight to save the ship is a very handsome man who’s not a man at all, but some sort of monster. Only Will’s not very monstrous. And also, Sean’s had a psychic vision of them, well–you know. The problem is, Sean’s never foreseen anything that didn’t end in disaster.

Will Sullivan did not intend to be a vampire. But when he was mortally injured, his vampire friends at the Haven saved his life the only way they could. Will’s grateful, but he’s got a family in England he misses terribly, and while they don’t mind his dating men, he doesn’t know how to tell them he’s not human anymore. Will’s on his way to see them one last time when an irritating, stupidly attractive man who can psychically see all Will’s secrets tells him the ship they’re on is about to sink. And oh yes, at some point in the future, they’re apparently going to have absolutely fantastic sex.

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