Sundark: An Elle Black Penny Dread
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Elizabeth Watasin creëert meeslepende verhalen die gotische spanning vermengen met elementen van speculatieve fictie. Haar kenmerkende stijl verweeft een duister Victoriaanse esthetiek met futuristische visies, waardoor werelden ontstaan vol ongewone heldinnen. Met haar achtergrond in animatie en strips brengt ze visuele flair en verhalende dynamiek in haar genre-overstijgende verhalen. Lezers kunnen spannende en tot nadenken stemmende verhalen verwachten, die unieke hoeken van sciencefiction en fantasy verkennen.






The werewolves challenge Dean to a Hell race on, of all days, Sweetheart's Day. With the vampire neglecting Bunny, the dark fairy, Fairer Than, moves in to woo. Love is in the air in Little Salem but for Bunny, that love may lead to a death match of vampire versus fairy muscle. The challenge is on! Meet teen witch Bunny, a daughter of a seventh daughter living in Little Salem's Enchanting Forest. Dean is her perfect greaser vampire girlfriend, but beyond hotrods and soda shops lies something more in the Enchanting Forest: fairies. And even among such ancient, preternatural denizens, they've someone to fear, namely the notorious heart breaker and home wrecker, the dark fairy, Fairer Than. Fairer Than: Gorgeous, red-haired, stronger than a fairy ought to be, and smoldering in more ways than one. Her reputation has Daughters of the Faerie Court flee before her wake lest they fall for her charms. And there's a certain teen witch she'd like to charm, if only a certain vampire was out of the picture. Dean: The coolest vampire greaser in Little Salem, ready to defend her girl and treat her right-except when a dark fairy threatens to take Bunny away. Paranormal YA romance and fantasy, LGBT
Nico had one goal at Again NewYork’s spaceport: to welcome her lover Heloise with flowers. Involved in a budding romantic triad and set to enjoy the rock concert of the galaxy with Damara Airship, what more could a young vampire want? But amid the intragalactic, Other-being, and human travellers, something every creature and person feared came in on the plane: faeries. When the spaceport goes down, it’s any survivor of the fae incursion for him or herself, and Nico’s not going to let hoodlum wee folk stop her from getting to Heloise’s arrival gate. Until they do—repeatedly. It’s a bloody and deadly gauntlet run of Nico and Bear versus Darqueworld’s most feared boogeymen: the faerie kind.
Fairer Than the Fairest, as a drop-dead, gorgeous dark faerie, has no heart to break, but when teen witch Bunny chooses the vampire, Dean, over her, it hits hard. Then Bunny's cousin, Honey, arrives, interrupts Fairer Than's moping, and causes body switches-Fairer Than with Dean, then Fairer Than with Bunny-leading to more learned than a faerie ever wanted to know.
Faced with a vampyre once-husband returned from the dead, Elle Black, the psychic detective, flees London with her wife Faedra to answer an heiress friend's plea: what is causing the eerie change in Peasy's mother and staff? In Peaseflower estate, strange dogs roam, servants come in twins and triplets, and Peasy's scientific wonder, her immense conservatory, houses the rarest exotics and botanical treasures yet to be revealed to men-including one mysterious and highly guarded specimen.Elle must discover what's gone wrong at Peaseflower, but the world of plants has its defenses...and horrors. When she rushes to save Faedra from a killer and the secret, uncanny presence speaking inside her mind, Elle risks madness--and poison.
In Nuit Four space station's lawless sector, Kyn's estranged love, Anja the Sixth, finds trouble: flesh tech users creating sexbots have copied her celestial bio-design. As a fallen biomechanical servant of the gods, Anja's bio-dats can't be toyed with. Faced with murderous sex dolls and a sealed flesh tech lab, hellhound shifter Kyn must protect her ex-love and take care of Anja's Femflesh duplicate despite her worst fear: watching Anja die again.
"Thee, of stars"A ship of dead with iced men who shatter; The Terror sails into the Port of London during England's worst winter, bringing insidious ice fog and a hidden killer. Secret Commission agents, Artifice, the artificial ghost, and Jim Dastard, the animated skull, track their murderer to the frozen Thames' Frost Fair, only for Art to discover a deadlier danger--one involving the women she holds dear.
Blind Elvie Chaisty discovers a breathing British Museum marble and soon more "living" statues appear in London. Meanwhile, a masked, monocled sculptress invites guests to her provocative marble garden, to be experienced by touch alone. The rich and the specially invited Elvie are enchanted by the sculpted bodies that can be discerned beneath their hands until one visitor dares to make a deadly discovery. Journalist Helia Skycourt and her stick for hire, Ellie Hench, must find out: is the monocled woman the centre of a death cult, one helping young women to an eternal state? Helia and Ellie race to solve the mystery before the sculptress's fascination for Elvie seduces Elvie into her marble garden, permanently. With a special appearance by Artifice, artificial ghost and heroine of the steampunk Dark Victorian series, MEDUSA is a gothic, romantic horror set in an 1880, mechanical and supernatural London. An F/F lesbian historical dark romance and gaslamp fantasy. "Masterful. A vivid world of myth, mystery and Victorian magic." Felicity Kates, author of the Steam Bunny, The Little Miss Kick-Ass series "A delightful girly-Gothic romance, inventive, sensuous and thrilling; Dracula's Daughter by way of Hellboy. An absolute joy." Amelia Mangan, writer of the macabre: Drag Noir, Phobophobias, and the upcoming Release.