Publisher's Synopsis
Halloween is the time for spooky things, and those who love them. This collection of monster romance novellas, occurring on or around Halloween, features:
WelcomeA woman moves into a new home. When a man shows up and welcomes her to the neighborhood, she's happy to make a new friend. He helps her to paint and get settled in while they fight a growing attraction to one another. Despite some things seeming off, she's happy to ignore them as long as his hands are on her. Until she discovers the truth: he hasn't lived in that neighborhood for five years. Bound to the Demon
After escaping an abusive relationship a woman is happy to be free, with a car, job, and apartment she can call her own. When her ex-boyfriend begins showing up, she's worried that he'll wear her down and talk her into coming back to him. After discovering a series of old books from her grandmother, she accidentally summons a demon. After she offers him his freedom and some of her pizza, he wants to return her generosity with a favor.
When she wakes up on the demon's chest after a night of bad dreams, she finds herself fighting an attraction to him. After a run-in with her ex, she agrees to the demon's offer of protection. But what will happen when her ex is no longer an issue? Will the demon bound to her go back to Hell when she frees him? Hell, To Play
After a board game freaks out one of her friends, the party is officially over. A woman sees off the remaining friends of her Halloween get-together, only to come back to someone in her apartment. Decked out in a hyper-realistic demon costume, the intruder refuses to get the hell out before she uses her bat. Insisting that he was invited, she realizes he's the demon she and her friends had been talking to through the spirit board. Having come such a long way, he offers her a night of her most wild fantasies fulfilled.
When she asks him if she can visit Hell, he agrees as it's the only way to achieve her wish for a threesome. His friend has other ideas for his human companion, and soon she isn't so sure she'll see her apartment again. Under My Skin
A stranger steps in to save her when a masked man gets too aggressive during the bar's annual Halloween celebration. She thanks the hot goth guy and gives him free drinks for the rest of the night. When he leaves without asking for her number, she assumes she'll never see him again. At the end of the night, she notices someone is following her while she walks home. Accosted and dragged into an alley, she realizes it's the same man who harassed her earlier. She's surprised when the hot goth guy saves her again; she's even more surprised to discover he's a vampire.
When she invites him back to her apartment, they spend the remaining hours until sunlight having the best sex of her life. In the last moments of their time together, he tells her he can never see her again. The following night he finds her at a bar, where she's trying desperately to forget about him. She grows frustrated with his inability to stay away from her contradicting his dictums that they can't keep seeing each other. Chase Me Out of the Woods
The couple has been married for over a decade. A few months ago, the husband needed to take an emergency business trip. Ever since then, things have been off. She can't help but feel like he's having an affair.
At his insistence, they go to the neighbors' Halloween party. Upon arrival, she is shocked to find a couple having sex, in costume, in a room full of onlookers. He convinces her that they should stay, and over the next few hours, they wade deeper into rooms filled with strangers enjoying each other in costumes. They learn things about each other and themselves that they didn't realize prior to their experiences. Will this knowledge help to repair their marriage, or will it be the final straw?
