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How To Sell Your Blood and Fall In Love by D.N. Bryn No romantic story has ever lived up to Dr. Clementine Hugheās reality but at least he has his steamy two-million-word fanfic and a prestigious research position at Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceuticals, where their benefits are superb and their experimentation on vampires highly unethical. When a mysterious accident turns Clementine into a vampire, discovery would demote him to lab rat and his growing thirst for his coworkerās veins forces him to the streets to hunt. Justin Yu is usually the one attacking villains in alleys, not the other way around. After the tragedy he brought upon his local vampiric community in his youth, heās struggled tirelessly to keep their vampires safe. So when a panicking Clementine botches a bite attempt, Justin takes pityāand advantageāand offers the vampire a trade: his blood in exchange for an exorbitant fee. In desperation, Clementine accepts. Justinās blood is bland and unappealing, but the more Clementine learns to appreciate the manās sharp humor and persistent compassion, the more he acquires a taste for Justin. Justin is determined not to let Clementineās good looks and thoughtful intellect distract him as hunters from Vitalis-Barron close in on Justinās neighborhood, and it turns out someone there knows Clementineās vampiric secret⦠|
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How to Flaunt Your Chains and Surrender a Vein by D. N. Bryn āWhat else is this shed for, if not torturing unsuspecting vampires?ā Rahil Zaman has good reason to keep his distance from the worldāand his fangs are only part of that. He hides in his crumbling home, acquiring blood through the risky one-night stands he finds on hunter-infested hookup apps. After one such fling turns sour, Rahil ends up trapped in the work shed of the one match he wishes would respond to his flirtations. Finding the hot twink heād been ghosting inside his work shed was not on Mercer Bloncourtās agenda. Between his work as a craftsman and his tumultuous relationship with his chronically-ill daughter, he doesnāt have the time or heart for a relationship. But Rahil is not the only intruding presence in Mercerās life. A hostile hunter and a manipulative research scientist both insistāon threat of his daughterās lifeāthat he recreate versions of his āholy silverā: a vampire-killing metal forged in the wake of his wifeās murder, bound up in all the grief and destruction heās striven for years to overcome. To complicate matters, Rahil is the rare vampire whoās immune to the deadly silver, providing Mercer the perfect lab rat to test a kinder vampire-affecting metal. As Rahil and Mercer rush to the forge, they must face their past wrongs once more, and in time, discover that no mistake is worth the sentence of eternal loneliness. |
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How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck by D.N. Bryn āI only take whatās owed me, and you, my little swan, owe me blood.ā A single kiss from a masked vampire during Shaneās last journalistic endeavor has left him with an obsession and a mission: uncover the secrets of the black-market blood trade and find his mystery vampire in the process. But this investigation is dangerous. One knock at the wrong door and he could have fangs at his throat instead of lips. Andres had been trying to forget his kiss with Shane Crowley by drowning himself in his work as a thief for the blood trade. When he finds itās Shaneās blood his boss has decided to steal, Andresās only option is to buy him for every drop heāll ever produce. This act awakens something in Andresānew thoughts of ownership and chains that he believes could only ever be the desires of a monster. Andres needs blood to live though, and heās going to have it from Shane, even if it means donning a mask once more. Between the strange desires Shaneās life as a part-time blood slave is stirring in him, and his investigations into the cycle of injustice that so many fanged citizens face, and texts with an odd new friend who feels vaguely familiar, Shane feels pulled in all directions. Little does he know all those paths lead back to the same vampire⦠|
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How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager by D.N. Bryn "I WANT YOU TO BITE ME." Vincent Barnes has suffered four years as a vampire, and theyāve been the most miserable years of his pathetic life. Too poor for black market blood, he feeds from sleeping humans to survive. He tries to never intrude on the same prey twice, but after a single delicious taste of a long-lost childhood neighbor, he canāt help returning for seconds. Wesley Garcia has been waking up with fang marks. Lucky for him, he needs a vampireāto use as bait. Heās certain Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceutical killed his mother, but to gain access to their covert research labs, he has to bring them a bloodsucker for their experiments. Step one, a dramatic offer: Stay, and you can bite me. Vincent leaps at the chance to gobble Wesley up. Wesās plan is perfect. Heāll befriend the vampire, then trick him into coming to the lab. No fighting, no fuss. But Vincent is more than Wesley has bargained for: sweet and shy, with intoxicating fangs that awaken new desires in Wes. As the two bond, Vincent believes he might have finally found someone worth putting his trust in... and Wes fears neither of them will survive the betrayal he has planned. How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win and Wager is a slow-burn paranormal mm romance full of laughter, angst, and thirsty pining. It is perfect for fans of fangs and scientific interpretations of vampirism, with a medium spice level that heats up further in the free bonus content. Content includes bite kink, bleeding (non-kinky), medical experimentation (not experienced by the point of view characters), one particular lesbian BFF who should be reported to HR, and the use of ābodice-rippingā as a verb. |
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