A Perfectly Paranormal Valentine
About this ebook
Whatever your paranormal pleasure, dive into these five original stories from award winning and new Australian authors in this magical anthology.
Featuring sweet or spicy romance, action, revenge, secrets and curses, this paranormal anthology will fill all your Valentine's Day desires.
Witch, Vampire, Demi-God, Fae and Shifter: who will get their happy ever after this Valentine's Day?
LOVE CURSED by Leisl Leighton
A love across time, cursed to stay apart …
Coven librarian, Juliana Stevens, jokes about being cursed at love. When an old diary that speaks of an ancient Love Curse is found, she realises it isn't a joke. To break the hex she must uncover a secret spell and travel to Rome to be in the exact spot with her unknown soul mate by midnight on Valentine's Day, or her soul will be doomed forever. No pressure – but it's going to be Happy Never After if she can't.
BAD BATCH by Marnie St Clair
Avery Lloyd does not like being a witch - it's all rules and hard work. She also hates dogs. As in, really hates dogs. So when her boss Alec insists she attend the Valentine's Day charity event at the lost dogs' shelter, Avery casts an unlawful spell to get out of it. But something's not quite right about this batch of magic, and before she knows it, Avery has ruined Alec's life. She has until Valentine's Day to fix it, or the damage will be permanent.
CATNIP by Samantha Marshall
For reclusive dragon Oaklyn Airecross, spending Valentine's Day with a stack of book boyfriends and chocolate mousse sounds like heaven - until an uninvited guest picks a fight with a bean bag, and she's thrust bodily into a mess of runaway cats, vampire intrigue and frypans. In order to reclaim the Valentine's Day of her dreams, Oaklyn must set aside her preconceived notions on true love, the perfect man, and exactly what that bulge might be when it twitches inside of his pants.
FILIGREE AND FATE by Helen Lucy Howe
Famous fae-artist, Zhulija, is asked to create decorations for a wedding, but things don't go according to plan. Infamous unseelie, Dario Eribifax, after recognizing his 'true mate,' appoints himself her personal assistant in an effort to convince her of their fated connection. What could possibly go wrong?
A BROOMSTICK BREW by Georgia Tingley
When Wysper uses a 'love potion' on Valentine's Day to make the man of her dreams fall in love, things take a turn for the worse. She finds herself falling for everyone she looks at. A hilarious witchcraft backfire!
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About the author
Georgia Tingley has lived in various countries while growing up – India, England, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. She calls Western Australia home, living near some of the best beaches in Australia.
In her downtime she loves to read, watch TV shows and movies, do crafts and get into the garden. Swimming and snorkelling are favourite pastimes, and she tries to do laps at every opportunity.
With a caravan at their disposal, she and her husband love to travel around Australia and try to get away at least every couple of months to see all that this wide, red land has to offer.
Meet Helen Lucy Howe - Hellucy Howe. A Book Dragon who teethed on romantic fairy tales and went on to voraciously devour anything paranormal. Writing was also second nature but became something to do in secret when the stories of her young child mind were ridiculed. Homes were populated with books and hidden caches of story notebooks inspired by a fertile brain and a massive creative streak.
She became a Professional Reader and a Closet Scribbler, convinced no one would want to look at the mad ramblings of someone who hates getting dirt under her fingernails and knows ironing was invented as a torture method.
Nowadays, Hellucy loves inventing paranormal and fantasy romance from the comfort of her cosy study with a hot cup of tea beside her laptop and her little spaniel, Lexie, snoring at her feet. With her anthology contribution of ‘Filigree and Fate’, Hellucy has been dragged kicking and screaming from her closet, into the deer-in-headlights world of being a Real Author.
Leisl Leighton is a tall red head with an overly large imagination. As a child, she identified strongly with Anne of Green Gables, and like Anne, is a voracious reader and born performer. It came as no surprise when she went on to a career as a performer, script writer, script doctor, stage manager and musical director for cabaret and theatre restaurants.
After starting a family, Leisl stopped performing and began writing the stories plaguing her dreams. She is addicted to sci-fi and romance books and DVDs, she sometimes sings in a choir, loves to ski and horse ride, and was President of Romance Writers of Australia from 2014–2017. When she’s not writing, she helps other writers make their manuscripts shine.
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After years of forecasting the price of tea in China, Marnie St Clair finally shut down the spreadsheets and got serious about her passion for romance, especially the kind that blends charm, humour and small towns – with a dollop of magic and mystery.
A country girl at heart, Marnie now lives in Melbourne, Australia, with two surprisingly civil teens and a weatherman husband. She likes prosecco, cottage gardens, driving at night, sandalwood-scented anything and a really strong cup of coffee. Or preferably two.
I’ve been writing my whole life, scribbling stories on anything close to hand – from the shopping list to napkins to post-it notes (don’t mention post-its to hubby haha).
I grew up reading fantasy of the likes of Anne McCaffrey, and have been a lifelong vampire fan, along with all things spooky – but wasn’t introduced to paranormal romance until my late teens. I knew immediately that a touch of romance was the element I’d been missing from my other reading, and from my own writing! After all, it’s a huge and important part of our everyday lives. When I realised it was possible to have characters with a full range of emotions as well as an epic adventure, my writing life was forever altered.
I completed a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing after high school and spent the next several years in my writing cave, working on a novel that is now in a drawer somewhere, followed by a couple of others who shared the same fate. (What can I say? I’m a recovering perfectionist.)
I came close to debuting my novel career in 2009, then ended up pregnant and took some time off to have kids. I debuted for real in 2019 with Sorcery and Stardust and won ARRA’s Favourite Debut Romance Author for 2019, which was extremely cool!
I write speculative fiction that is a fusion of multiple sub-genres and therefore doesn’t fit particularly well into any of them, but after many years and a lot of angst, I’m okay with that. I love all my characters and their stories for different reasons, but have a soft spot for an excellent villain and a tortured protagonist.
I currently live in south east Melbourne, Victoria, with my hubby, two kids, a Golden Retriever and a turtle. I volunteer with the Romance Writers of Australia, and I’m passionate about great writing, interesting characters, chai tea and happily ever afters.
