The vampire rules the dark fantasy of the last one hundred years. In the past, this creature would allow a female character to act out her secret fantasies of the less than chaste behavior of seduction. These days, however, such fantasies would be considered worse than passe, they would be laughed off the market.  After Sundown: Redemption reflects a more modern approach. Today's vampires are no longer mysterious counts or earls of some hidden away wealth and power, but un-dead creatures that need to find their purpose in life as much as anyone. They also seem to need, love. Ah, but there lies the source of delicious conflict. How can a human and vampire find love when the human’s very flesh is what must be fed on? Who would win, the Predator or the Prey?

Immortality can be over rated, if in order to have it, you must endure the rapes of a Hag. Such is the life, if it can be called that for Riain Cree, prince of Chale. It is he who is named so in The Prince Of The Wind when in fleeing the Hag, he enters a temple on the wind. He finds haven there, but not for long. So how did he end up in such a kind of hell? What must he have done to deserve such punishment? Would you believe, nothing?

Megan Hart is a talented author who writes in a variety of genres. Some of her previous stories are Playing the Game (contemporary erotica), Passion Model (sci-fi erotica), Trial by Fire (fantasy erotica), and Lonesome Bride (historical romance).

In Moonlight Madness, Rhea finds herself sidetracked by a one night only "Moonlight Madness" closeout sale. In the shop, she finds racks with furs of all different kinds and a clerk willing to do anything for a sale to the right customer. As she talks to him, she becomes uncomfortable and realizes he knows too much about her. Just as she goes to leave, the clerk decides that he has just the coat for her. But is it the coat for her?

Even though it was ten o'clock on a Friday night and she had the warning signs of a dawning migraine headache, Brenna Collins was working late. Then, just as she was about to finish up for the night, someone was pursued past her office and then was shot several times. Sitting quietly until the elevator signaled the killer had left, she tried dialing 911. But the phone was dead; and she realized that she was alone in the building with a gunman. Brenna peeked out, saw the Vice President of Overseas Operations, William Jenner, dead outside of her door. She made a run for her life.

From the United Space Alliance medivac ship Orion, Dr. Caitlin Kelly led the team to investigate the medical distress call from Sector Nine, near the edge of the Sinisters, an area of space dangerous to visit. The planetoid in question was an uninhabited gray stone barren, but tracking the two weak life forms led the medical team to a cave where they found nine female giantesses, dead of hemlock poisoning, holding hands in a ritual circle. Deeper in the cave, a last woman died before their eyes, and behind a door, they found a dying man hanging in chains. The man, the corpses and their few weapons, a scroll and a journal were taken aboard.

The Reapers, a kind of shape-shifting vampire, were greatly feared. Leader of the six Elite Reaper warriors on the Frontier Station Khamsin-14, Kamerone Cree was unjustly called before a tribunal of the Court of Military Inquiry and condemned to "reinforcement,Ó followed by a month of punishment on Helios Twelve. Reinforcement was held at the Behavioral Modification unit, and only the fact that the Behaviorist team was led by Kamerone Cree's father's consort saved his life.

Raised by a brutal father and an abused mother, Sean endured. The only spot of happiness in his dismal life was Bronwyn. Though Bronwyn had loved him all throughout her childhood, her parents were dead-set against him and refused to allow her to see him. They endured separation and their own private miseries, living from secret meeting to secret meeting; Sean and Bronwyn lived for the day she would turn eighteen. But Sean was a secret to himself. Who knew why he could read minds?

Lauren Fowler worked in a bookstore, but until the enticing incubus Syntian Cree found her, she might as well not have existed, for all the attention the world paid her. When he entered the bookstore, he looked at her, not through her. He was intoxicating to women. What an inexplicable moment it was for lonely unappreciated Lauren--a forty-four year old virgin--when this intensively attractive male chose her deliberately over the other salespeople. Little did she guess that he had chosen her not from the few within the store, but from the many voices of misery he'd heard calling for thousands of years. He had come from the very depths of Hell to be her champion and nothing was going to stand in his way. He witnessed the hostility with which the salesgirl Inez treated Lauren, and he made a point to stand up for Lauren; then he left. From that moment on, he would not allow a transgression against Lauren to go unpunished.

I have been to Oz before. Not only did I grow up with Dorothy, I've also read Wonderland 1-4: King of Hearts, King of Spades, King of Diamonds and King of Clubs. Lord Kir of Oz does stand alone, though it coordinates with the others. I have to admit, it took some adjusting for me to accept the Dorothy that I know ending up in Cheyenne's and Mackenzie's version of Oz. I finally had to suspend my belief and give sixteen year old Dorothy permission to be a fictionalized adult shadow of the Judy Garland Version (and no relation at all to Frank Baum's nine year old Dorothy.) Once I got Garland out of my head--or mostly out--I was a little more tolerant. Still, I really had trouble pinning down my issues. I don't know if it was the different pacing, or the occasional nod to the original (movie version) without a tight parallel, or that the elements that were kept were different from what I would have kept, and the elements that were not kept were different as well. This is a subjective reaction I doubt anyone else will have because--face it folks--I'm an opinionated misanthrope. But on to the story...