Title: Tainted Tales
Authors: Claire Marta, Anna Edwards, Faith Ryan
Sara Dobie Bauer, , Emma Jaye, T.S. McKinney
Abrianna Denae, Leigh Kenzie, Jessica Collins, L. Ann
Genre: M/M Romance, M/F, Dark Elements, Paranormal, Fantasy
Release Date: March 26,2020
Cover Design: TRC Designs
A Dark Folklore Anthology for Save the Children
Some stories paint us sweet, told to children as they fall asleep.
Mother Earth she weaves the world with a whirl of her magic, and her kind embrace shapes us all. Father Time keeps us all, ever constant, ever moving onwards, for time never stands still.
Icy hands and a frozen touch, Jack Frost ushers in the cold snap, coating the earth with sparkly delights. If Jack brings cold, May Queen brings warmth, her delicate touch bringing forth the spring.
Follow the rainbow and maybe you’ll find, a Leprechaun with his lucky pot of gold.
The watchful eyes of Man in the Moon keeps all of the secrets of the night, shining down on us with his silvery light. The Sandman is here to soothe you to sleep, bringing all to slumber with a pinch of magic dust. Shhh, sleep now. Beware the Boogeyman lurking out of sight, waiting under your bed, to catch naughty children in the night. Be good little children, for Santa is watching, and he knows if you've been naughty or nice.
Tales of lore, fair music to our ears. Can you hear it? Did you know? Not every tale is sweet. The truth is darker, our stories more twisted, unlike the rhymes that children hear.
All proceeds will be donated to Save the Children.
This is a mixed M/F and M/M anthology that contains trigger warnings for its dark content.
It is intended for a mature audience of 18+.
International Bestselling Author Claire Marta. A native Brit, I live in Italy with my husband and daughter. When I am not writing and drinking copious amounts of tea, I enjoys taking photos of my adoptive country, trying to stay fit with running, reading amazing books and being a stay at home mother.
I am a British author, from the depths of the rural countryside near London. In a previous life, I was an accountant from the age of twenty-one. I still do that on occasions, but most of my life is now spent intermingling writing while looking after my husband, two children and two cats (probably in the inverse order to the one listed!). When I have some spare time, I can also be found writing poetry, baking cakes (and eating them), or behind a camera snapping like a mad paparazzi.
I'm an avid reader who turned to writing to combat my depression and anxiety. I have a love of traveling and like to bring this to my stories to give them the air of reality.
I like my heroes hot and hunky with a dirty mouth, my heroines demure but with spunk, and my books full of dramatic suspense.
Faith Ryan is wife to a handsome bearded man and mother to three, yes three, teenage girls. She lives in a small town in Ohio and is a weirdo to the max. She is in love with love of all kinds, especially the dark, dirty, and forbidden. She enjoys torturing her characters, sometimes figuratively and other times literally. Faith's writing leans to the weird, dark, and unconventional. If you like your stories with a bit of blood and taboo, you're looking in the right place. But don't worry, Faith also has a sweet side she lets out on occasion.
Sara Dobie Bauer is a bestselling author, model, and mental health / LGBTQ advocate with a creative writing degree from Ohio University. She lives with her hottie husband and two precious pups in Northeast Ohio, although she’d really like to live in a Tim Burton film. She is author of the paranormal rom-com Bite Somebody series and Escape Trilogy.
Emma Jaye was destined to be a little quirky having been born as a surprise twin in Hungry Bottom. She’s been called the Queen of Angst because she love putting damaged, often sweet and funny characters through hell before letting them have a HFN or HEA ending.
When not writing or reading in leafy Sussex, England, she herds birman cats and sons; both groups argue that there are too many of the other sort.
TS McKinney lives in Tennessee (but a huge Crimson Tide fan) with her high school sweetheart hubby, two dogs, and six cats. She's always loved to write and turned her dream into reality in November of 2014. She writes according to her mood...which can be troublesome. Sometime she's dark. Sometime she's playful. Sometime she's obsessed with sports. Other times, she's obsessed with paranormal. It gets exhausting! The one thing that's rock-steady is that she's always a bit naughty and, more important, always gay romance! With this genre, she's found the stories and the people she loves!
Abrianna Denae is a twenty-three-year-old author living in Northern California. An English major, she has always had a passion for writing.
Deciding to sit down and write one of the many stories that had plagued her mind for years was the easy part—finding the time to do it was a different story.
Caffeine is her best friend, sleep is her worst enemy.
A lover of books that make the reader feel something, she tries to incorporate as much of her real world views and feelings into her stories as she can.
Deciding to sit down and write one of the many stories that had plagued her mind for years was the easy part—finding the time to do it was a different story.
Caffeine is her best friend, sleep is her worst enemy.
A lover of books that make the reader feel something, she tries to incorporate as much of her real world views and feelings into her stories as she can.
Leigh is a dark romance author from Texas with two needy terrors of terriers and equally needy husband. She considers coffee a major food group and her family fears broken coffeemakers. She writes in her spare time, forced to the keyboard by characters entirely too vocal in her opinion and often falls victim to plot monkeys. In between creating mayhem with her characters and friends, her hope is to transport readers to fictional places and provide darkness with a twist.
Since her debut novel, Stealing Beauty, in March 2017, Jessica has proven herself to be the newest up-and-coming (pun fully intended) romance author. Her accolades to date include the 2017 Golden Leaf Award (1st place, Erotic Romance, Stealing Beauty), 2017 Reality Bites Magazine Award (1st place, Best Fairy Tale, Stealing Beauty), 2017 Reality Bites Magazine Award (Finalist, Best Fairy Tale Author), 2018 International Digital Award (1st place, Erotic Novel, Finders Keepers), 2018 Enchanted Anthologies Award (1st Place, Best Fairy Tale, Finders Keepers), 2018 Passionate Plume Award (Finalist, Contemporary Novel, Stealing Beauty) and the 2019 Passionate Plume Award (Best BDSM Novel, Finders Keepers, Finalist - Winners announced July 2019).
She currently lives in New Jersey with her incredibly supportive husband (let's be honest, he enjoys the *ahem* research *ahem* he gets to assist with) and the love of their life - their pitbull. In her free time, she enjoys watching horror movies, taking baths, playing old-school Nintendo on her computer, and appreciating life.
Jessica draws inspiration from her eclectic background: a licensed mental health therapist, a "sex and romance" consultant, an animal-rights advocate, and an avid lover of books have allowed her to create the realistic world for her characters.
In her Fairy Tales After Dark series, Jessica has combined classic characters with sizzling situations to create a world the reader wishes they were a part of. Alpha males, confident heroines, amazing friendships, and fan-worthy sex combine with enough tension to keep you on the edge of your panty-soaked seat all night long. Discover how each tale is rewritten into today's world as the characters search for their happy ending - in more ways than one.
Desire... danger... and a whole lotta heat. These aren't your childhood fairy tales!
Jessica's other works include a number of other titles ranging from sweet to dark to paranormal romances and more!
L. Ann has had a fascination with storytelling since the day she realised those funny little squiggles on the page formed words and could take her into a world outside of reality.
She writes Paranormal Romance with a leaning toward the dark side, violence and sarcasm ... lots of sarcasm.
Claire Marta
Anna Edwards
Faith Ryan
Sara Dobie Bauer
Emma Jaye
TS McKinney
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Abrianna Denae
EMAIL: authorabridenae@gmail.com
Leigh Kenzie
Jessica Collins
L Ann
