Slightly Sweetly, Slightly Creepy

* Ten complete gothic romances set in eerie locales around the world, with HEAs or HFNs. * Sydney, Australia: a young woman with a family secret becomes entangled with an enigmatic stranger. He was brooding and beautiful and... she was intrigued by the grief which spread from his eyes to the space around him, held up by his music. The music pierced Em's heart, though she couldn't understand the words... An Inheritance by E.H. D'Urbin In a South African asylum, a cursed creature sings hope to a grieving woman. Sometime after midnight, the storm that had raged during my arrival blew over and the moon bathed the garden in silver beams of light. I awakened, drenched in sweat… to find a shadow lingering right outside my window… From the Ashes by MS Weaver In the old-world charm of Orlando, Florida, an enchantress's fiancé becomes something else after dark... His smile was slow to spread, like a viscous puddle of blood. "Hello, Julia. Pleasure to meet you, at long last." I Love You After Dark by Taryn Moreau Out at sea, after the fog descends, a newly wedded wife senses something watching her. Something in the water. Something that knows her secrets. I loved our wedding day. As I came to love him, despite the lies… The Cracked Compass by Beth Green In a country between the cracks of existence, a young woman's imprisoned inhuman lover summons her into peril. Once upon a time, you were scarred and pitted and you walked crooked and I loved you. Unbeautiful Corners In an abandoned Texas hotel, an intrepid ghost-girl from the 1920s and a stubborn boy from the present day wage an epic battle of wills. It wasn't being dead that bothered Audrey so much. It was that the constant sameness of every day was just so boring. A Fool For You by Nicole Herron & Renee Edwards After the stage lights go dark in North Carolina, and rich soil sifts over buried secrets, love still thrives. She woke to a dark figure looking down at her… two eyes, dark and round as hollows… a thin, wide mouth and the suggestion of a nose. A spill of shadows resolved into trailing hair over a knobble-jointed body. Whoever this was wasn't human… The Wind Chimes by Katherine Traylor In rural New York, an orphan prey to strange dreams encounters a creature of storybook nightmares. Wings protruded from the gargoyle's back, each tipped with a sharp talon that promised agony should one pierce its prey... Stone and Hellfire by Lynn Rush In the streets of medieval Tallinn, Death and Fate wreak havoc in the life of a starving artist. "Kiss me." The shouts from the market, the wind rattling the windowpanes, the whole outside world stopped as Agnes stood up on tiptoes, looking at him as if he were the only person in the world. The Dance of Death by Sky Sommers In labyrinthine Prague, a lonely woman makes a lover from a scrap of soul. "Don't you trust me?" Samorost by Sonya Lano Come, dear mortal, enter without fear. (I told you: I promise it'll end happily for those who dare...)