Shiloh Walker - The Haunted
This was interesting, and might get me to check out the series (eventually). A nice wee bit of angst between the former lovers, but I'm not really into storylines with children, so there's that. But overall I liked it. (3 stars)

Sonya Bateman - The Devil Went Down
I liked this, but it was resolved waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too quickly (like in three sentences). Interesting world-building, so I'd maybe check out a series, but this one suffered a little from the extreme short length (3 stars).

Dianne Sylvan -Sweet the Sting

Erin Kellison - Wylde Magic

Jill Archer -Dream, Interrupted

Laurie Landon - Enticed by Blood
Well, I like a bit of angst, but this gets tied up WAY to quickly, even accounting for the limited length. Basically, it's "oh you're a vampire? Cool, everything's forgiven, let's be boyfriend/girlfriend." I might give the series a shot if I have a hankering for vampires, but there are a lot of options in that genre, so we'll see. (2.5 stars)

Bec McMaster -The Many Lives of Hadley Monroe
Apparently I love everything Bec McMaster writes. None of my favorite tropes in this one, but I loved it nonetheless. I'm impressed such visceral characters could be packed into so few pages (4 stars)

Angie Fox - Date with a Demon Slayer

Elle Jasper - Return to Me

JD Horn - Pretty Enough to Catch Her

Tiffany Trent - Love, Sugar

Shelli Stevens - Savage Rescue

Jessa Slade - If Only Tonight

Shawntelle Madison - Cursed

Amanda Bonilla - Waerd Awakenings

This is an anthology with each story set in the American south; from Southern California to Georgia. The South is a good setting for such Gothic stories. There are a lot of plantation houses and crumbling mansions. The atmosphere is hot, humid and rainy with swamps, Spanish moss, and kudzu.

I always enjoy Gothic ghost stories but I rarely read romances. I liked the stories that were light on romance and heavy on supernatural elements. I skipped a few stories that were too steamy and one that was very silly. The supernatural elements include; past life memories, ghosts, shape-shifters, vampires, and witches.

“The Devil Went Down” by Sonya Bateman has many elements I enjoy, the Civil War, past life memories, and angels and demons in a classic fight between light and dark. “Wylde Magic” by Erin Kellison is a great shape-shifter story. “Dream, Interrupted” by Jill Archer is a retelling of the story of Persephone, one of my favorite myths. “Return to Me” by Elle Jasper is another past life story with a very Gothic setting; a dark storm night and an old dark house. “Pretty Enough to Catch Her” by J. D. Horn is a great noir thriller. “Love, Sugar” by Tiffany Trent has the typical goth trope of an old house inheritance that comes with a ghost love interest.

If you enjoy crumbling mansions, kudzu, tragic love affairs, and supernatural elements delivered with a southern flare, then you will enjoy reading this anthology. ( )

Shiloh Walker - The Haunted
This was interesting, and might get me to check out the series (eventually). A nice wee bit of angst between the former lovers, but I'm not really into storylines with children, so there's that. But overall I liked it. (3 stars)

Sonya Bateman - The Devil Went Down
I liked this, but it was resolved waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too quickly (like in three sentences). Interesting world-building, so I'd maybe check out a series, but this one suffered a little from the extreme short length (3 stars).

Dianne Sylvan -Sweet the Sting

Erin Kellison - Wylde Magic

Jill Archer -Dream, Interrupted

Laurie Landon - Enticed by Blood
Well, I like a bit of angst, but this gets tied up WAY to quickly, even accounting for the limited length. Basically, it's "oh you're a vampire? Cool, everything's forgiven, let's be boyfriend/girlfriend." I might give the series a shot if I have a hankering for vampires, but there are a lot of options in that genre, so we'll see. (2.5 stars)

Bec McMaster -The Many Lives of Hadley Monroe
Apparently I love everything Bec McMaster writes. None of my favorite tropes in this one, but I loved it nonetheless. I'm impressed such visceral characters could be packed into so few pages (4 stars)

Angie Fox - Date with a Demon Slayer

Elle Jasper - Return to Me

JD Horn - Pretty Enough to Catch Her

Tiffany Trent - Love, Sugar

Shelli Stevens - Savage Rescue

Jessa Slade - If Only Tonight

Shawntelle Madison - Cursed

Amanda Bonilla - Waerd Awakenings