Book Details:
ASIN: B0BHR8JZFZ
Publication Date: October 8, 2022
Print Length: 91 pages
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About the Book:
He's a vampire haunted by his past. She's a cursed black cat shifter. This Halloween, will love finally set these two tortured souls free from the shadows of their past?
Joe Evensen has never been a fan of Halloween. However, as the owner of Last Drop bar, each year he hosts a Halloween Bash for Crescent Creek. It's a business decision, but it also serves as a distraction from the ghosts of his past who torment him while the veil between the living and the dead is thin. Joe doesn't expect this Halloween to be any different, but it is.
Ivy Pendle has been cursed since her eighteenth birthday. She's spent years only allowed to walk in her human form on Halloween in search of her mate and never finding him. Doubting she ever will, she decides to spend her last Halloween allotted as a human enjoying herself instead of stressing about being stuck in her shifter form forever.
When the two meet by chance, there's a spark of something between them. But is it simply a case of misery loving company, or something more?
Halloween With A Vampire is a standalone Halloween story set in the larger Paranormals of Crescent Creek world.
He's a vampire haunted by his past. She's a cursed black cat shifter. This Halloween, will love finally set these two tortured souls free from the shadows of their past?
Joe Evensen has never been a fan of Halloween. However, as the owner of Last Drop bar, each year he hosts a Halloween Bash for Crescent Creek. It's a business decision, but it also serves as a distraction from the ghosts of his past who torment him while the veil between the living and the dead is thin. Joe doesn't expect this Halloween to be any different, but it is.
Ivy Pendle has been cursed since her eighteenth birthday. She's spent years only allowed to walk in her human form on Halloween in search of her mate and never finding him. Doubting she ever will, she decides to spend her last Halloween allotted as a human enjoying herself instead of stressing about being stuck in her shifter form forever.
When the two meet by chance, there's a spark of something between them. But is it simply a case of misery loving company, or something more?
Halloween With A Vampire is a standalone Halloween story set in the larger Paranormals of Crescent Creek world.
My Review:
Halloween with a Vampire is a sweet shifter/vampire romance. Ivy Pendle is a cursed kitty. This is her last Halloween to find her fated mate before she's destined to roam the earth solely in her black cat form. Resigned to her fate, instead of going home to see her parents one last time, or even truly search for her mate, Ivy stays in Crescent Creek and finds herself in the Last Drop Bar owned by Joe Evensen.
Joe is being haunted by the sins of his past - literally. Figuring this Halloween will be the same as all of the previous ones, he prepares to wallow in grief and misery. Fortunately his Halloween Bash should distract him, if for only a little while. When a stranger shows up in his bar, and the torments from his past lessen, he realizes who and what she is, but not why she's there.
Ivy and Joe are fantastic characters. I loved them each individually but even more so when that spark hits. They had chemistry from the get go. I was impressed by the spectacular development of such a short story. The reader is given enough information about each character, allowing us to watch them grow just a little bit throughout the book. I loved the world-building and vivid descriptions.
I love the originality of the story. The curse placed upon Ivy is different (to me, anyway). I enjoyed how the author spun her story.
My Rating:
