Book release: DARKER EDGE OF DESIRE: GOTHIC TALES OF ROMANCE — the new anthology from Mitzi Szereto
Publication date: Oct. 2014 (worldwide)
Trade paperback and e-book
235 pages
Genres: Gothic Romance, Erotic Fiction; Sci-Fi/Fantasy; Gothic Horror, Dark Fantasy
ISBN # 978-1940550008
Publisher: Tempted Romance, USA
Available on Amazon
Love, passion and sex…it’s all here in Darker Edge of Desire. Gothic literature has always possessed a dark attraction ripe with the promise of the forbidden and the sensual. In Darker Edge of Desire, Mitzi Szereto takes the sexualized Gothic and ratchets it up a few notches into the danger zone, opening a door into the darker side of lust and love that only the courageous dare to venture through. Venturing even farther into the world of mystery and romance than she did in the critically acclaimed Red Velvet and Absinthe, Szereto creates an atmosphere with a distinct Gothic flavor where we explore our more forbidden desires. In these tales, love and lust (and kink!) know no boundaries, and all nature of beings—vampires, werewolves, shape shifters, automata, ghosts, and succubae—abound. Tread carefully, danger and desire lie ahead!
(Includes a foreword from Kate Douglas and an afterward from Rachel Caine)
Visit the book’s website at: https://mitziszereto.com/darkeredgeofdesire/
Advance reviews:
“When your midnight cravings come calling, Darker Edge of Desire is the book you want on your nightstand. Wedged between these covers are fourteen tales of seduction and submission, from lust most carnal to virginal awakenings—even (despite the title) moments of achingly tender sweetness. Darker Edge of Desire is a chocolate box assortment of stories that depict passion in all its varieties, most—but not all—of them with a supernatural twist, no two of them the same. Bon appetit.” — Alma Katsu, author of The Taker Trilogy
“In this collection’s great dark tales of sex and murder, fear and love, pain and pleasure, we see not only ourselves, but we also shine a candle on our collective past, and that is a powerful and exciting journey.” — Rachel Caine, author of Glass Houses
“Desire can be so intricately, beautifully twisted, so perfect in its dark and dangerous attraction that no other choice exists but to follow that compelling lure without regard to safety or personal danger, often down paths better not traveled. Yet following that twisted, dark and dangerous way is rife with promise even when tainted with despair. Is the lure truly the darkness, or is it hope? Hope for something more, for something sublime. There’s only one way to find out—all you need do is put fear aside and step into the dark, cross into the Darker Edge of Desire.” — Kate Douglas, author of Wolf Tales
About the editor:
Mitzi Szereto (https://mitziszereto.com) is a bestselling multi-genre fiction author and anthology editor, has her own blog Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto’s Weblog (https://mitziszereto.com/blog), and is the creator/presenter of the Web channel Mitzi TV (https://mitziszereto.com/tv), which covers “quirky” London. Her books include The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray; Thrones of Desire: Erotic Tales of Swords, Mist and Fire; Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts; Normal for Norfolk (The Thelonious T. Bear Chronicles); Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance; Getting Even: Revenge Stories; and In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed: Erotic Fairy Tales. Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotic fiction to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She divides her time between the UK and USA.