Dark Rain: 15 Short Tales (44 page)

Moon Bayou, by J.R. Rain & Rod Kierkegaard, Jr.
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http://curiosityquills.com/kindle/moon-bayou/
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Mother, wife, private investigator, vampire - Sam Moon’s been around the block. Now, unlife brings her to New Orleans to test her mettle against a new kind of lurking evil…

The Dead Detective, by J.R. Rain & Rod Kierkegaard, Jr.
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https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/dead-detective/
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Medical-school-dropout police detective Richelle Dadd is… well, dead.

But that won’t stop her from trying to hold on to her house in a divorce battle with a bitter husband. Or keep her from digging into her own murder, to discover who put the bullet into her heart. And it certainly won’t stand in the way of finding out the reason she’s been reanimated as a zombie assassin, no longer in control of her life.

Richelle will face off against Gypsy shamans, double-crossing ghosts, a partner she can’t trust, and her own undead nature in a journey into the depths of the occult world and out the other side without losing her sense of humor - or humanity - along the way.

It’s a good thing her deductive skills - and her aim - are still up to par.

The Department of Magic, by Rod Kierkegaard, Jr.
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https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/dept-of-magic/
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Magic is nothing like it seems in children’s books. It’s dark and bloody and sexual—and requires its own semi-mythical branch of the US Federal Government to safeguard citizens against ever present supernatural threats.

Join Jasmine Farah and Rocco di Angelo—a pair of wet-behind-the-ears recruits of The Department of Magic—on a nightmare gallop through a world of ghosts, spooks, vampires, and demons, and the minions of South American and Voodoo god shell-bent on destroying all humanity in the year 2012.

The Accidental Superheroine, by J.R. Rain & Kris Carey
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https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/superheroine/
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When newly-coined physicist Mira Verborgen sprung for a cushy internship at CERN, she did not expect to end up working side by side with sensitive European hottie, Giancarlo Colombo, or the sudden-onset case of butterflies whenever he’s around.

Nor did she expect the two of them to end up the inadvertent subjects of a megalomaniac Russian scientist’s deadly energy experiment. Instead of their budding relationship being cut short along with their material existence, the pair develops a startling mutation. A mutation that puts them in the crosshairs of Swiss, French, and American governments - not to mention the dastardly Dr. Gavrilov.

With CERN held hostage by Gavrilov and his rapidly-evolving superpowers, do Mira and Giancarlo have what it takes to own their mutation and protect the free world, before it’s too late?

The Serendipitous Curse: Reborn, by Aiden James & Lisa Collicutt
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https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/reborn/
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The soul of Solomon Brandt, an evil plantation owner murdered by his slaves, has been safely contained by the Hoodoo circle over his burial site. But construction work has disturbed the seal, and the essence of Solomon emerged at last into the modern world – but forever changed.

Will the Hoodoo priestesses that imprisoned him give Solomon a chance at redemption? A chance at true love? A chance to find himself again?

Will the good in him triumph, when his soul’s evil side comes knocking?

The Vampire Circus, by Rod Kierkegaard, Jr.
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https://curiosityquills.com/kindle/vampire-circus/
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Coco and Zuzu are twins, separated at birth and brought up in Switzerland and Kentucky. Reunited as young women in the demi-monde of Parisian nude revues and houses of prostitution, they are forced to continue in their genetic heritage of vampirism, caused by a mutation to the syphilis spirochete. Menaced by the oldest vampire still living, the shadowy
Maître du Monde,
and stalked by Coco’s lover Willy, a fifteen-year-old Vatican vampire hunter, as well as Johnny Durango, a formerly famous, now vengeful, “cowboy detective” fresh from an Arizona penitentiary, the two sisters together embark upon a phantasmagorical journey into international film stardom set against the vivid tapestry of 1920s Paris life.