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Hollywood has thrilled—and titillated—audiences with tales of women who love monsters since King Kong and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Our love affair with the ultimate “others” continued as we made the acquaintances of Barnabas Collins, Swamp Thing, the Vampire Lestat, Hellboy, and Shrek. It should come as no surprise that when ViceTV decided to do an episode on “Monsters Fantasies”, they came to Riverdale Avenue Books to interview some of those authors in an episode that aired in March 2018.

Maven Hoffman’s new family was made of these legends come to life, and, as if that wasn’t enough, it would seem her new stepfather was a dragon, a monster of the sky! And she’d just learned that her mother was one now too! But she had to admit, her handsome stepbrother was in a league of his own. Thrust into a world she knew nothing about, Maven thought she was handling the news about her mother’s marriage and transformation pretty well - until Maven was informed that she too was a dragon.

Alex Martin’s world is changing at an alarming pace. She had arrived at the Wilmot’s mountain compound with her best friend Laura just as all hell has broken loose. A dozen or so blasts set off by a terrorist group had hit most major cities in the US. Their compound was also attacked, so they all moved to the fortified tunnels beneath the buildings. The Wilmot brothers - Grant, Daniel, and Roman - were Laura’s men, former military personnel, as were most of their companions. They were all survivors of a secret government experiment performed on them when they were children.

Struggling single mother Laura McGill figures she has nothing to lose and everything to gain when she impulsively signs up online to meet a sugar daddy. After losing her virginity to a two-timing married man, she's out to find security for herself and her infant son Max - and hopefully a man she can love.

Elisa Martin was overweight, geeky, and to top it all off, she was secretly madly in love with her stepbrothers - wasn’t she the picture of a winner? After her mother married and was turned into a creature of the night that she’d always fantasied about, Elisa packed her bags and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, needing to find out all she could about their race. What she wasn’t expecting was that her stepbrothers would follow a year later.

Holly Brewner knew she had a problem with Christmas Eve, but she thought her way of celebrating was better anyway. Twelve days of gifts and on Christmas Day, the big one. Her father and she had celebrated every year like this, but this year was going to be different.

Lea Clark was so happy when her mom finally found the man of her dreams. She thought that not having to worry about her mom any more would take a load off of her shoulders, but she got so much more than she ever imagined when she married into this family! Not only had her mother married an alien from another planet but her stepfather was from a family of warriors to boot. Did she mention that her stepfather had not one but two hot, sexy warrior sons? And that her so-called stepbrothers claimed she was their mate as well? Talk about keeping it in the family!

Alpha shape-shifter Remi LeBlathe has only one thing on his mind tonight: sex. Unfortunately, he can't enjoy his latest menage a trois near as much as he'd like to because he knows there's someone out there who is his true soul mate. Life can change in a matter of moments, as it does for him as he finds himself searching for his perfect mate in the most unlikely of places.

Lucy Ballard’s life sucked. First her father was killed in a boating accident, then some nut job she thought would be her husband, took something from her that left a hole in her heart the size of a watermelon. She was convinced that no man would want her now –she wasn’t whole. The one thing she had dreamed of all her life–to have a big family–was now physically impossible.

Every time her mother was around, Dee saw the pain in her eyes. She was born from violence, her father was a killer, rapist and literally the bogeyman of her nightmares. All Dee wanted was someone strong enough to love and protect her the way she craved, but could she keep them safe from her father?

Light years away, the Tetraheros came together. Their creation, the Cometedge race, is on the verge of extinction, even with the female companions provided to them throughout the years. Meanwhile, one lone rogue has tried to wipe out the feline shifter population on Earth. There was only one solution: The Cometedge Pact. Three warriors are bound to every female, connecting two separate races through a sense of duty, blood, sex, and love.

Strangled by the sun’s heat and ravaged by the human race, Earth is a dying planet. With planets disappearing from the galaxy at an alarming rate, a last ditch effort is put into high gear to save as many planets as possible.

Dixie Squire is half demon on her mother’s side and has an embarrassing gift that she can’t reveal to her father. Who wants to tell their daddy that she needs to have sex every week in order to survive? Talk about a complex.

More than 16 million people had posted their #MeToo story and support against sexual harassment by mid-October as a reaction to Rose McGowan’s brave admission that she had allegedly been raped by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. A groundswell of reaction to and exposure of this sexual predation was unleashed that has spread throughout Europe and beyond. This is a historic moment and it needs to be memorialized. Listen to this collection of 26 essays from people who understand want to make this change, and we, as a society, have got to figure out a way to drive that change forward.

In A Halloween to Remember, Halloween was supposed to be about monsters, treats, and fun, but Shelly Glassgo has had enough of monsters to last her a lifetime. You would think that the threat of war around the corner would bring people together, but that was not the case. How could a big cat love a small wolf? Bo was tired, with the move, settling his people - and the new ones that were joining their den - it had all kept him to busy. But Bo was bound and determined to make sure her Halloween was filled with treats - three big ones - Argo, Buck, and White Eagle.

Hope Catcher had seen it all - from the fall of the world as she had known it to monsters from her nightmares becoming her reality - but somehow she had managed to survive. From an early age, Hope had learned to depend on herself. All she every wanted was a family to love. How was she supposed to know that three blue men - three very big, huge men - were her future? Or that she was the fifth woman who was destined to save everyone? Talk about pressure!

Valda hated being a skunk ape - a Bigfoot...a Yeti by another name. But she was no ordinary skunk ape. Valda had gifts and kept them hidden. But now, someone was hunting her, and she knew it was only a matter of time before they caught her. The six men of her pack - the ones she'd been promised to, the ones who would not give up on her - were determined to claim her.

The Royal Family was all but dead. Garth, Turck, Snaid, Maddock, and Rafe Metathis, the Undisclosed Ones, now ruled her people. The humans called them gargoyles. Well, that's what everyone thought, except for Marci, the one true heir to the throne that everyone thought was dead. Garth and his brothers sensed the danger that surrounded their woman, but the Metathis brothers knew they could protect her. The passion and the heat that came from her was the only thing that calmed the ranging animal in each of them.

Long ago, realms collided, and monsters, goblins, demons, wolves, bears, and all sorts of shifters stepped out onto Earth. This was the time where legends were made and destiny changed. Allie was the last of her sisters to be married off, but she never imagined she’d be happy again after being kidnapped, starved and beaten by her so-called blood family. But time heals all wounds, including hers, when she is held in the arms of her true lovers - a wolf, a bear, and a demon. They were her own Halloween goblins.

All Whitney Rae wanted was a hot one-night stand. Instead, she ends up bitten by a werewolf on the run! And her rescuer happens to be the one and only Frankenstein who is more than willing to protect her if she submits completely to him. Talk about scary sex!